Doctor worked six months infected with TB, OSHA finds
Four Massachusetts hospitals failed to do enough to make sure doctors were free of infectious diseases before allowing them to practice medicine, federal investigators concluded after unraveling the case of a junior physician stricken with tuberculosis, The Boston Globe reports.
An OSHA investigation found that Boston Medical Center, the principal assignment of the surgical resident, didn't follow up after suspicions emerged about her health. And OSHA concluded that three other hospitals where the doctor rotated didn't have mechanisms for gathering detailed information on the health of trainee doctors before allowing them to begin rotations.