Oh my gosh-what a story.  Crazy what this tech did at hospitals and got away with. Sad that his medical condition and subsequent addiction led to all of it.  He clearly lost his soul and his senses along the way. But the story itself! Huge bravo to the reporter and all her work putting it together. The reporting is amazing.

Typical amazing Globe investigative report. Incredible story. The one thing that hit me about it came from this passage: "...on his well-placed faith that angry former employers were too harried, or legally intimidated, to try to derail his career with damning references. They simply rushed him to the exit door and searched for a new hire." We wonder about diminishing values in society. This can be traced to the fact that those who try and ferret out the truth are prosecuted and those who are criminals receive shielding, then protection. I bet each and every person infected in ANY of these cases would have preferred a job candidate be shaken down for their past records and risk embarrassment if too many questions were asked. Our society defends more than it should, and typically, as in this story, many good people suffer because the track record of institutions and individuals are muted, as in our recent drug compounding lab issues. All people could have been saved if the general rule was to fear performing due diligence. Can more laws help? No. There are enough. What needs to be stopped are people, such as our Lt Governor, having investigations against them muted. We have no choice but to wait until the NEXT problem...another characteristic of the Kwiatkowski "syndrome."