Nurse steals patients pain meds – tells him to "man-up"

A Minnesota nurse, Sarah May Casareto, shot herself up with the dose of fentanyl meant for a patient who was undergoing surgery for kidney stones. According to the police report obtained by the Star Tribune, Casareto said to the patient just before the surgery, "You're gonna have to man up here and take some of the pain because we can't give you a lot of medication."

After the procedure started, the patient felt "very long needles going through my skin and down into my kidneys." When he started screaming Casareto told him to "go to your beach ... go to your happy place." Soon Casareto started slurring her words then fell asleep. She resigned to avoid taking a drug test and was charged with theft of a controlled substance.

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