Paracetamol theft is hardly the Great Train Robbery
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Paracetamol theft is hardly the Great Train Robbery

Jane Bates Retired nurse

A nurse’s six-month suspension for taking paracetamol tablets from a ward supply is a little hard to swallow

I don’t know about you, but I have great trouble getting tablets down. I gag and retch, like a cat coughing up a hairball.

Cancer Nursing Practice. 23, 6, 11-11. doi: 10.7748/cnp.23.6.11.s5

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