Nipomo nurse’s drug problem preceded assault on her husba


Several years after Nipomo nurse Margaret Troutman was licensed in 1986, she began stealing prescription painkillers from Marian Medical Center to feed a drug habit, according to state records. “She obtained the drug … by writing on the hospital’s controlled drug record an amount which was larger than what the patient required,” according to a Registered Nursing Board report. The hospital ...

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