General Discussion

I lived for years around Boston and for a while in Kansas City. I used to work transcribing medical records. No hospital that employed me in Boston (before and after the KC job) ever required a drug screen.

In KC, I had to pass a urine drug screen through employee health before being hired. I hadn't used pot or anything else for years and I knew I would be clean, but I told the nurse that in more liberal parts of the country, people might consider this an invasion of privacy. When my results came back, she said, "you were worried that there would be a problem, but your results are fine". She literally didn't understand my comments about it being an intrusive practice and just thought I was worried about failing the test.

My work was just to transcribe reports and the accuracy and speed with which it was done was monitored. The drug test accomplished nothing.