"Ten people at an Oklahoma care facility for people with intellectual disabilities were hospitalized after they were apparently accidentally injected with what's believed to be insulin rather than flu shots, authorities said."
What do they mean "believed to be insulin" ? How do they not know what they injected them with???? [nbcnews.com]
I saw this story on a FB post from a friend. For some reason I just don't think this was an accident.
I use injection pens to take my insulins, and from direct experience with such I can say for sure there is a noticeable difference between an insulin pen and a flu shot needle.
I'm active on a site called Beyond Type 1 (I'm a Type 1 Diabetic), and a few members on that site had posted about the above story, and what a story it was...
I used to have to inject my dog twice a day with insulin. It wasn't a pen, a regular syringe and a little bottle of CLEARLY MARKED insulin I kept in the fridge. I don't understand how they make errors like this and it's not the first time: "A similar mishap occurred in September in Indianapolis, when 16 students were mistakenly injected with insulin during a tuberculosis skin test."
Can the people giving the injections READ?