The fact that it apparently took UW Hospital and Clinics three years to figure out one of its senior pharmacists was stealing what ended up to total more than 27,000 powerful narcotic pills has a lot of people scratching their heads.
“How could one of the most respected cancer centers in the country not have realized what was going on sooner?” asks Leonard Cizewski, a Madison registered nurse whose late brother received chemotherapy treatment treatments from the pharmacist years ago for complications of AIDS. Cizewski compared him to a drunken driver. “If he makes a mistake,” he says, “somebody could end up dead.”