[MCOH-EH] Marijuana... again

[Miriam Alexander]

I would continue to test for thc. If an individual is positive I would set
a restriction of no safety sensitive work or no patient care work. I don’t
believe you’ll ever win a malpractice case if your surgeon has THC in their
sample. I also think you’ll always lose a workers comp case if an employee
falls off a ladder. Until we come up with a way to correlate urinary or
blood thc with impairment I think we’re all in a “no win” situation. We’ve
all learned to work with alcohol  concentrations and impairment. When our
scientist colleagues figure this out we’ll be very happy.

Miriam


On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 at 4:35 AM Nancy Rodway <nrodway at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Most SAMHSA-certified labs now have panels sans THC
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> *Subject:* [MCOH-EH] Marijuana... again
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> Good afternoon All,
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> So, with marijuana now legal in the state of CT, hospitals are looking to
> each other to determine if they should accept recreational marijuana use as
> a legitimate explanation for a positive THC test. The law gives some leeway
> to health care organizations to make their own decision about this – at
> least for now.
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> Another topic of discussion is whether we should find a reasonable HCW
> panel that does not include marijuana.
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> Any thoughts from you pioneers out there that you want to share would be
> greatly appreciated.
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> Thank you,
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> Craig
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