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‘No remorse’ for surgery technician who gave hepatitis to 36

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DENVER – A surgery technician who infected three dozen people with hepatitis C and may have exposed thousands of others by switching used syringes with ones filled with a powerful painkiller says she got careless while at two Colorado hospitals and doesn’t expect to be forgiven.

Ahead of a hearing where she’ll be sentenced to 20 years in prison, Kristen Diane Parker described for prosecutors how she slipped through a hospital’s drug screening process and began stealing drugs as she coped with a heroin addiction.

Full story: ‘No remorse’ for tech who gave hepatitis to 36 – Crime & courts- msnbc.com.