Posted on 06/24/2015 1:39:32 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
... But as soon as he pressed play on his way home, he was shocked out of his anesthesia-induced stupor: He found that he had recorded the entire examination, and that the surgical team had mocked and insulted him as soon as he drifted off to sleep.
And in addition to their vicious commentary, the doctors discussed avoiding the man after the colonoscopy, instructing an assistant to lie to him, and then placed a false diagnosis on his chart.
“After five minutes of talking to you in pre-op,” the anesthesiologist told the sedated patient, “I wanted to punch you in the face and man you up a little bit,” she was recorded saying.
When a medical assistant noted the man had a rash, the anesthesiologist warned her not to touch it, saying she might get “some syphilis on your arm or something,” then added, “It’s probably tuberculosis in the penis, so you’ll be all right.”...
The jury awarded the man $100,000 for defamation — $50,000 each for the comments about the man having syphilis and tuberculosis — and $200,000 for medical malpractice, as well as the $200,000 in punitive damages. Though the remarks by Ingham and Shah perhaps did not leave the operating room in Reston, experts in libel and slander said defamation does not have to be widely published, merely said by one party to another and understood by the second party to be fact, when it is not.....
Ingham suggested Shah receive an urgent “fake page” and said, “I’ve done the fake page before,” the complaint states. “Round and round we go. Wheel of annoying patients we go. Where it’ll land, nobody knows,” Ingham reportedly said....
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What I don’t get is why the patient thought he had to record everything. All Patient Instructions are printed up anyway. I was just in the hospital for a few days last week, and upon my discharge, I received Discharge Orders from the attending physician. As I always do. All instructions would have been written down, printed, stapled and presented to the patient. Most times, the Discharge Orders are given as soon as a decision to discharge has been reached. This allows your nurse to go over the report with you. Some people are not fully literate, or may remain a little unfocused, so a good hospital prepares for this.
Good thought - medical folk want to record everything about us? OK, fine, we record everything about them. Audio record every procedure, photograph every office and procedural room. Take everyone’s names. Do it every visit. Works for me.
Good thing he did record it. Show these arrogant aholes (no pun intended) that their little laugh was over the line.
Don’t let them drug you for a colonoscopy, of course they don’t like that.
Hmm...did this patient set this up by being a complete jerk, with the recorder ready, so he could sue? If so, the doctors certainly took the bait.
Hey they are just following Obamacare guidelines for professionalism.
“Don’t let them drug you for a colonoscopy”
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You want to be awake during a colonoscopy?
Do you also fantasize about prostate exams? LOL
When you drive yourself, you can’t be drugged.
Needing to be knocked out for everything seems a little lame.
Maj. Tiffany Ingham, an anesthesiologist from the 920th Aeromedical Staging Squadron at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla.,
http://www.123aw.ang.af.mil/photos/mediagallery.asp?galleryID=8052&?id=-1&page=1&count=24
You won’t, either. My oncologist refused to be drugged because he wanted to play golf later that day.
He said that it was agonizing.
That reply seems off-base.
A small but real fraction of doctors behave this way, and getting it on record, or being awake, is not a silly choice.
What is off base about the desirability of being knocked out for a colonoscopy? Have you had one?
Good little government employees!
The lab I went to would not accept you if you drove yourself, as being knocked out was mandatory.
What are Canadian laws on wiretapping? Seems like the patient would be in more trouble than the doc.
Moot point. This was in Virginia, not Canada.
Actually, this happened in Virginia, and since the recording was central to the case -
“...The doctors’ attorneys argued that the recording was illegal, but the man’s attorneys noted that Virginia is a “one-party consent” state, meaning only one person involved in a conversation need agree to the recording.”
Hmm...did this patient set this up by being a complete jerk, with the recorder ready, so he could sue? If so, the doctors certainly took the bait.
The one and only time I had a colonscopy I asked for them to videotape what they saw and they didn’t say no. Afterwards they said the found nothing wrong and the camera didn’t work.
I hate having to 110% trust a once in five year doctor and staff.
Six months later someone in thst office started billing me for a $50 copay fee for a procedure that was accepted from the get go as being preventive and 100% covered.
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