Posted on 10/18/2014 9:25:07 AM PDT by Brother Cracker
DOVER, Del., A Delaware man's lawsuit alleges he awoke from anesthesia after a colonoscopy procedure to find he had been dressed in a pair of pink panties.
The New Castle County Superior Court lawsuit, filed by attorney Gary Nitsche on behalf of Andrew Walls, 32, said Walls was employed by the Delaware Surgery Center in Dover when he underwent a colonoscopy procedure at the facility in 2012.
Nitsche said his client was put under anesthesia during the procedure and he awoke after surgery to find someone had dressed him in pink women's underwear.
"When the plaintiff initially presented for his colonoscopy he had not been wearing pink women's underwear and at no time did the plaintiff voluntarily, knowingly or intentionally place the pink women's underwear upon himself," the lawsuit states.
Jennifer Anderson, director of the Delaware Surgery Center, declined to comment Wednesday. "We just found out about this yesterday afternoon," she told the News Journal.
The lawsuit, which also names the Eden Hill Surgical Group of Dover, alleges Walls suffered "severe emotional stress," and Nitsche wrote his client is seeking compensation for mental anguish, lost wages and loss of earning capacity
Yeah. You never want to wake up from that procedure, with a hickey on the back of your neck . . .
Yes, and apparently a few FReepers think this kind of bullying is acceptable.
“Lost wages”? Throw this case out.
The first result for “colonoscopy fart” is the best. It made the rounds a little while ago:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=colonoscopy+fart
I’m having knee surgery on October 30. If this happened to me, I’d be outraged! Pink is just not my color! Lavender or maybe a deep mauve is a much better look for me.
“When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
It’s not acceptable, but it’s not a legal case either. This is of the class of offenses that should be resolved within the hospital, not in a court room. Somebody should be fired over this and the hospital should give him a couple of hundred bucks out of that last guy’s paycheck, and that should be the end of it.
that should read, “out of that guy’s last paycheck”.
How did it take two full years to bring this lawsuit? I’m guessing they’re just rolling the dice as a Statute of Limitations comes up on the Rolodex. The suit itself has no specifics whatsoever describing the “consequential damages” he wants us to believe he’s incurred.
I ALWAYS take a black Sharpie and write, “No pink panties” across my ass before any procedure. It’s just common sense.
It would be interesting to know if the patient was gay, and this was a cruel joke. If so, the instigator should be fired. And it just may be too embarrassing for the patient to return to the workplace. If the patient is a big, husky, hetero guy said patiente should just punch out the lights of the instigator and be done with it.
When I was making my appointment and getting the pre-procedure information I swear the doctor told me that it could go on as much as two hours or more-—this was so my wife would know when to be on hand to pick me up.
So a day later at 8:30 a.m. I went through the whole thing, then they took me out to the little curtained waiting area where the doctor met me, asked if I was feeling all right, and did I have any further questions.
On the way there I was pretty sure I had noticed a wall clock that read 9:10. So I said, Gee, Doc, how long was it anyway?
He gave me a kind of sideways, unpleasant look. “I told you—five and a half feet.”
Waking up groggy, pink underwear AND KY drippng from the mud muscle......just another weekend in Anytown, USA
I don’t think it bullying. It was a practical joke in bad taste. However, the actions of the man suing the Hospital make the panties appropriate as he is demonstrating that he is a pussy.
A poster named kiltie can’t see the joke in it?
You could always use the occasion to promote Knee-problem Awareness a la our ‘First Lady’ with a “Let’s Mauve” campaign…
(Or you could call it- “Mauvember” but you’d have to postpone the procedure for a couple days & the Mustachioed fund-raisers might have a problem with that ;)
Good luck with your surgery!
LOL!
Sounds like maybe his co workers were sending him a message, that he’s a little bitch?
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