Worker who spotted bad chemo drugs is no hero – he just did his job

The young pharmacy assistant who discovered chemotherapy drugs given to hundreds of cancer patients in Ontario and New Brunswick were diluted says he is no hero.

And he's right.

Craig Woudsma testified before an Ontario legislative committee looking into the blunder. He said he was just doing his job, The Canadian Press reported.

Its just part of the process, its part of our job, and it just happens that this check that we made had a broader impact than we certainly would have anticipated, Woudsma, 28, who works at a small hospital in Peterborough, said on Tuesday. But definitely not a hero, no.

Were not looking for glory or anything like that. What we do is kind of the same thing day in and day out, and were there for the patients.

Absolutely correct.

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We tend to pin the hero label on people a little liberally these days, I think, to the point we may be devaluing the currency of heroism.

The Oxford Dictionary defines hero this way:

noun (plural heroes)

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Worker who spotted bad chemo drugs is no hero – he just did his job