Posted on 11/14/2012 8:35:52 AM PST by raccoonradio
Video link below. An award-winning emergency room doctor, accused of careening through a Wellesley parking lot and ramming another car while allegedly high on drugs and alcohol, told cops she was just out trying to buy her Thanksgiving turkey, police report.
“I was listening to NPR radio ... in my car ... and decided I needed to get gas,” Dr. Kristin Howard told police.
“I was going to Whole Foods to buy a Thanksgiving turkey,” she said. What happened next on Friday morning landed her in handcuffs.
The doctor said she couldn’t control the accelerator in her Subaru Outback. Police said she failed or refused to take sobriety tests and had “numerous” pills inside her jacket pocket. Her speech was “slurred,” her eyes were “glassy,” police said, and she had “extremely constricted pupils.”
Howard, a 56-year-old emergency room doctor at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, was released on her own recognizance after her not guilty plea yesterday in Dedham District Court, where prosecutors asked a judge to hold her on $10,000 cash bail on a slew of charges, including driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol, causing serious bodily injury and illegal possession of prescription pills.
Officers responded at about 8:45 a.m. to the corner of State and Washington streets, where police said Howard tried leaving the scene of the wild crash.
Dramatic footage of the accident shows Howard’s car whipping through a nearby parking lot, clipping a tree and — with the back end of the car several feet off the ground — crashing into a car waiting at the intersection, pushing it into a nearby truck. Police reported that the 78-year-old driver she hit suffered broken ribs and spent two days in the hospital.
Officials at Newton-Wellesley Hospital “immediately relieved her of all hospital related responsibilities,” said hospital spokesman Brian O’Dea.
O’Dea said the hospital is also conducting a “very active investigation” into allegations that Howard was writing herself prescriptions. Police report she had numerous depressants — from Klonopin and Diazepam to “unknown” tablets — in containers inside her jacket pockets.
“I don’t have any information where she may have gotten any medication she was using,” he said.
According to online records kept by the state Board of Registration, Howard, a 1992 Boston University School of Medicine grad, earned the 2008 Allen W. Locke, MD Award for “effective teaching of primary care” at the hospital.
Howard is due back in court Jan. 7.
>>Dr Kristin Howard
Dr Howard, Dr Fine, Dr Howard!
Video link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=raROtQF5rXQ
Howie Carr list ping
>>O’Dea said the hospital is also conducting a “very active investigation” into allegations that Howard was writing herself prescriptions.
Dr Feelgood!
>> Her speech was “slurred,” her eyes were “glassy,” police said, and she had “extremely constricted pupils.”
And surprisingly she wasn’t a Kennedy!
Howie Carr, be careful out there (this takes place in the town where he lives...)
Obviously lying - check.
Excuse for everything - check.
Aha, another prime candidate for working for the Obamadork.
“I was listening to NPR radio ... in my car ... and decided I needed to get GASSED,”
There, fixed it.
Don’t know why she was prescribing herself depressants. I’m guessing she’s a moonbat so what with Obama re-elected and
Liz Warren on the way to the Senate, she’s gotta be feeling pretty good these days...happy days are here again!
8:45 am? Drinkin’ pretty early aren’t we, ma’am? And she’s
an “award winning emergency room doctor”—I don’t know if she was supposed to be working later but you want this substance abuser working in an emerg room?
Surgeon General nominee?
Is she a patron of Bukowski's? Does she know the Pittster? Is she a "mentor" for the students at Wellesley?
Professional female cabinet-builders need to know!
Careful, you may be labeled an “anti-semite” and Uncle Leo will track you down!
Driving a Subaru Outback...was she wearing a flannel shirt and sporting a butch haircut, too?
>>the 78-year-old driver she hit suffered broken ribs and spent two days in the hospital.
“Physician, heal thyself” OR
“First, do no harm...” (doctor’s oath?)
:: and sporting a butch haircut ::
Att’d be about the ONLY thing she was “sporting”.
We are visiting Boston and she is typical elite inhabitant. Druggie..drunk..arrogant..Whole Food shopper..Obama voter..NPR sticker on her car..etc.
If she were a true liberal it would have been a tofurkey (turkey substitute made from tofu)
>>SHE WAS MOOVING!
So fast that even in the slo-mo part it’s fast
Granny (Liz) Warren hairdo
>>lesbo indicator
In David Zucker’s An American Carol, a conservative leaning comedy, “Michael Malone” (played by Kevin Farley and spoofing Michael Moore) is planning to outlaw the Fourth of July. A couple butch looking gals express their support to him.
Malone: Thank you boys!
Malone’s aggravated assistant, whispering to him:
They’re WOMEN!!
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