Boozy hospital worker could not focus as patient lay bleeding

  A hospital worker who smelt of booze was unable to focus on her job as a patient lay on the operating table bleeding profusely, a hearing was told. Catrina Thomson claimed she only had one glass of wine during her lunch break while working as an senior operating department practitioner at Guy’s Hospital in April 2013. Thomson appeared ‘distracted and clumsy in her tasks’ exactly two years later and denied she had a drink problem, the Health & Care…

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