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At 9 p.m. on March 5, a woman who had been a patient in the ED at St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa, FL, returned there in scrubs and claimed to be a temporary worker. Although she had no ID badge, staff accepted her story that she had lost it. She was allowed to enter the ED and worked for 10 hours as a patient care technician.

Patient comes back to ED in scrubs and works an entire shift as a temp