Am I a hypocrite: Exxon-Mobil Employees Given Fake Flu Shots
In view of the previous article I just posted...
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In one of life's little ironies, I'm about to produce here an opportunity to call me a hypocrite. Or maybe not.
In the previous blog article here: New Orleans police fire 50+ for desertion, I opined that we set perhaps impossibly high standards for our emergency responders and similar individuals. We ask perfection of them, and get incredibly mad when we get less than that.
Not that my prior article was intended to give anyone a "pass" for screwing up or perhaps endangering lives, but there has to be some reasonable balance between demanding that emergency responders be prepared to go down with the ship and giving them a bit of slack for being concerned over their own lives and limbs (and property and family members, etc.).
But then again, there are times when perhaps we are exactly correct in demanding perfection, or near perfection. For example, the following article that talks about some individuals defrauding and perhaps endangering others by their own actions. Health care industry workers. An industry where we again have no real room for mistakes. Would I give those individuals a free-pass? Not on your life (or mine).
Original article snippet follows. Headline is linked. Original materials apparently from AP.
Exxon-Mobil Employees Given Fake Flu Shots
BAYTOWN, Texas
Fake flu shots were given out last week at a health fair at Exxon Mobil Corp.'s Baytown complex and an investigation was under way, authorities said.
Exxon Mobil spokeswoman Treacy A. Roberts said Thursday that the FBI told the company that what was administered "definitely not the flu vaccine."
It doesn't appear that the fake shots were harmful, but steps were being taken to ensure workers' safety, U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg said in a statement Thursday.
Exxon Mobil offered blood tests and counseling to the up to 1,000 employees who took part in the health fair at the oil company's vast complex of refineries and chemical plants just east of Houston.
The FBI and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are investigating what was in the syringes and whether others might have received the fake vaccine, Rosenberg said.
Jeanne Miller, another Exxon Mobil spokeswoman, said a doctor provided the shots in Exxon's first use of an outside contractor to administer the shots. She declined to identify the doctor because of the federal investigation.
In the past, Miller said, company medical staff had offered flu shots at health fairs.
FBI officials did not explain how they found out about the potential fraud, Roberts said.
In May, a nurse in Minnesota, Michelle Torgerson, pleaded guilty to dispensing a drug without a prescription, admitting she used diluted vaccine left over from an earlier clinic and pocketed the cash when she gave college students shots at $20 each.
In the previous blog article here: New Orleans police fire 50+ for desertion, I opined that we set perhaps impossibly high standards for our emergency responders and similar individuals. We ask perfection of them, and get incredibly mad when we get less than that.
Not that my prior article was intended to give anyone a "pass" for screwing up or perhaps endangering lives, but there has to be some reasonable balance between demanding that emergency responders be prepared to go down with the ship and giving them a bit of slack for being concerned over their own lives and limbs (and property and family members, etc.).
But then again, there are times when perhaps we are exactly correct in demanding perfection, or near perfection. For example, the following article that talks about some individuals defrauding and perhaps endangering others by their own actions. Health care industry workers. An industry where we again have no real room for mistakes. Would I give those individuals a free-pass? Not on your life (or mine).
Original article snippet follows. Headline is linked. Original materials apparently from AP.
Exxon-Mobil Employees Given Fake Flu Shots
BAYTOWN, Texas
Fake flu shots were given out last week at a health fair at Exxon Mobil Corp.'s Baytown complex and an investigation was under way, authorities said.
Exxon Mobil spokeswoman Treacy A. Roberts said Thursday that the FBI told the company that what was administered "definitely not the flu vaccine."
It doesn't appear that the fake shots were harmful, but steps were being taken to ensure workers' safety, U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg said in a statement Thursday.
Exxon Mobil offered blood tests and counseling to the up to 1,000 employees who took part in the health fair at the oil company's vast complex of refineries and chemical plants just east of Houston.
The FBI and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are investigating what was in the syringes and whether others might have received the fake vaccine, Rosenberg said.
Jeanne Miller, another Exxon Mobil spokeswoman, said a doctor provided the shots in Exxon's first use of an outside contractor to administer the shots. She declined to identify the doctor because of the federal investigation.
In the past, Miller said, company medical staff had offered flu shots at health fairs.
FBI officials did not explain how they found out about the potential fraud, Roberts said.
In May, a nurse in Minnesota, Michelle Torgerson, pleaded guilty to dispensing a drug without a prescription, admitting she used diluted vaccine left over from an earlier clinic and pocketed the cash when she gave college students shots at $20 each.
