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After Decades of Unchanging Addiction Rates, Some Anesthesiology Departments Are Using Drug Testing

Certain occupations are so high-risk that the public feels compelled to subject people to drug testing: military pilots, train engineers, bus drivers ... but, anesthesiologists? Two renowned hospitals -- Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio -- seem to think the profession needs it and recently implemented random urine drug testing in their anesthesia residency teaching departments. Given the history of addiction within the anesthesiology... Full Story
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