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ER doctor on probation after suspected DUI arrest

The Associated Press

Posted: 09/30/2010 09:08:07 PM PDT

IRVINE, Calif.—An Irvine emergency medicine doctor has been placed on five years probation by the state medical board for reporting to work shortly after she was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.

Board documents say she showed up drunk for her overnight shift at the La Palma Intercommunity Hospital emergency room about two hours later.

via ER doctor on probation after suspected DUI arrest – San Jose Mercury News..

I gotta think a) that’s NOT going to help this doctors’ case and b) that’s not going to be good for their career…