Midwife in Bungled Birth Had Drug Issues

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He was the boy on someone’s baseball team; the drug addict nicknamed “Funky Rat” who did years in prison; and ultimately he was a giant in his own time. That’s how community members remembered slain East Palo Alto leader David Lewis Thursday evening, when hundreds gathered at “Free at Last,” the center he co-founded to help the city’s addicts end their personal death spiral and destructive …

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Midwife in bungled birth had drug issues
A midwife who initially cared for a Hamilton woman whose baby later died in a bungled delivery by a junior colleague had lost her practising certificate after being admitted to a drug and alcohol addiction clinic.

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