Posted on 12/25/2015 3:39:57 PM PST by WhiskeyX
A patient undergoing a colonoscopy pressed “record†on his smartphone before being sedated, hoping to capture instructions from his physicians after the procedure. What he heard instead was shocking: “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.â€
The incident cost his anesthesiologist $500,000 in the ensuing malpractice and defamation trial.
The recording has to be heard to be believed.
(Excerpt) Read more at kevinmd.com ...
When I had my colonoscopy, the doctor and the assistant were talking about the Boston Red Sox. I tried to interject but I was unable to speak due to the “twilight sensation” they had me under. Yet I was somewhat conscious of what was going on around me yet I could not speak. It was a very strange experience. I eventually did fall back asleep but I woke up again as I was being wheeled into the recovery room.
I really want to hear a recording of a colonoscopy.
I echo your wishes.
When the DR. found a polyp and hooked onto it to cut it off, the pain woke me up. I tried to take a swing at him from the table. I remember the nurses yelling for me to lie down. Someone reached behind my head and hit something and out I went.
The next time they asked me how ‘asleep’ I wanted to be. I said completely out. Decking the doctor would not have been a good move on my part.
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Just be sure to hit “record” when you go in for one.
It’s called “conscious sedation.”
Right before I went under the guy said “Choose what you want to dream about.”
I replied “I was going to say sex but considering what you’re about to do to me....”
I don’t get it. you go in naked except for a gown.
I have had three and have no idea how I would have slipped it past someone.
that strikes me as odd?
hide it in your hand? hardly as it would drop once anesthesia kicks in.
but the story is here, so I guess he managed somehow.
I LOVE the anesthesia, but hate seeing the picture of my rear right before I am under lol.
what a job.
Hey doc, could you play this while you do it? I wanna make a music video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bABY9ji9iL4
I had mine without anesthesia. Compared to a breech birth, it’s a walk in the park. Everyone was very polite and kind. The nurse patted my hand in a grandmotherly way.
Never had a colonoscopy, but any time I had to have a procedure done, my clothes and personal effects were locked in another room. How did this guy smuggle in his phone to record anything? And how is it not a crime to secretly record someone ? This is a great story but for me it’s full of more gas than a colonoscopy patients intestines.
better do it. you don’t want some nasty surprise..
“It’s called “conscious sedation.— Jack Daniels does that.
Sounds like Tiffany is a real b8tch, but I’m not seeing the $500,000 of harm done here.
BTW, if you are over 50, you have to get that dreaded colonoscopy. I reward myself with a massive steak dinner afterwards with onions and mushrooms. Even though doctor says I shouldn't eat that much afterwards.
Remember “Congressman Billybob.” A colonoscopy beats dying, hands down.
When I had my first, last and only colonoscopy, the IV tech who “started” the line for my IV sedation missed the vein (Unknown to me at the time...Didn’t know it was my job to check her work) her mind 1000 miles away she was so busy discussing her personal trauma of the day with one of her co-workers...
During the procedure, in spite of receiving a dose of sedative into the IV, the med made it into the tissue of my arm instead of the vein, so I endured the procedure fully awake...
The sensation of the scope making the upper turn suggested what the crew of Alien felt as the creature burst thru...Watched the bulge in my abdomen follow the progress of the scope...
When I complained of the pain, the Dr. and tech gave each other blank looks and simultaneously decided “he must be awake?!”; then gave me another dose of sedation...When I complained again a few seconds later, they finally examined the IV site, found the problem, but the Dr. said “We’re almost done anyway”...
Dr. and tech were both female by the way, and yakked about everything but their work at hand...So much for the putative “empathy” females supposedly possess over their male counterparts...
Nothing I couldn’t stand, and I’ve endured worse...Point is, not at all professional...Guess there’s a reason some med school grads perform open heart surgery and others spend their careers looking up...Well, you know...
Who cares? Number one in the class and number last both have Dr. on their parking spots...
That was my take too. The falsified records thing is serious, but whining about people while they’re sedated seems like a tempest in a teapot.
Actually I have dodged that bullet for a good ten years with the alternate method, the Fecal Occult Blood Test. No system flushing or snake invasion.
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