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@hotmail.com> wrote:
Most SAMHSA-certified labs now have panels sans THC


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Good afternoon All,

 

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.

 

Another topic of discussion is whether we should find a reasonable HCW panel that does not include marijuana.

 

Any thoughts from you pioneers out there that you want to share would be greatly appreciated.       

 

Thank you,

 

Craig

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