He should have just left her some stickers on her bedside table.
Posted on 07/16/2008 12:26:54 PM PDT by Coffee200am
A New Jersey woman has sued her orthopedic surgeon after awakening from surgery to find a temporary tattoo below her panty line.
Elizabeth Mateo, of Camden County, N.J., filed her lawsuit Tuesday saying she found "a temporary tattoo of a red rose" below her panty line the morning after her surgery for a herniated disc, her attorney, Gregg A. Shivers, told the Philadelphia Inquirer.
"She was extremely emotionally upset by it," Shivers told the paper.
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Why.
. . . 1 patient never violated....
Somebody violated that poor old women when they hand filed her teeth and left her with that hacksaw grin!!
I agree. I wonder if the bill will come in covered in stickers and glitter. What kind of doctor does that? LOL
Thank you. I can’t believe people think this is no big deal. If that was me and I found a surprise temporary tattoo I’d be furious even if it was on the back of my hand. I say don’t try to make her sound crazy. She should be able to go to the doc and come out with no such funny stuff going on. What’s crazy is wanting to laugh off this breech of professional conduct because once we cross the line then what.
You’re welcome. Take care...
Ok, so I assume you’d be fine with finding a red rose tatoo on your butt after having surgery? I wouldn’t be. Makes you wonder what this creep was up to besides doing his job.
i should have included a (/sarc) tag but i didnt think i’d need to. as i said in subsequent posts, this doc was wrong and seriously lacks integrity.
I have to agree with you. As a female, it’s uncomfortable being knocked out and at the mercy of others. I try to not think too much about it but to awaken and find his little get well note.. if my back didn’t hurt too much from surgery I’d have kicked his azz.
As an aside, I had some surgery and my surgeon told me that his ‘trainee’ who was assisting him with the surgery said I was a long, cool drink of water... I guess I was supposed to be flattered instead of my reaction of creeped out and wondering if they had been lifting the sheet..
Camden County, N.J., woman is suing her orthopedic surgeon after he rubbed a temporary tattoo onto her body while she was unconscious. Elizabeth Mateo claims in her suit that she did not realize until the morning after the surgery that the surgeon, Steven Kirshner, had left a temporary tattoo of a rose on her abdomen while she was under anesthesia, the Philadelphia Enquirer reported Wednesday.
“She was extremely emotionally upset by it,” said attorney Gregg Shivers, who filed the suit on Mateo’s behalf in Camden County Superior Court. The suit seeks punitive and compensatory damages from Kirshner. The doctor admitted to placing the tattoo on Mateo but he denied any ill intent, the newspaper reported. He said he often rubs temporary tattoos on patients as a means of helping to raise their spirits after a stressful operation.
“What’s offensive about this complaint is that it suggests something he did was intended to be prurient, and nothing could be further from the truth,” said Kirshner’s lawyer, Robert Agre. “It was intended just to make the patient feel better.”
You're calling me a liar and I'm calling you a pinhead. If I'm wrong, prove it. You can't, no matter how much you check Snopes, because it happened.
He should have just left her some stickers on her bedside table.
You know I can't prove a negative. But you could prove it is true...if it is.
Not being able to prove a negative is a logical fallacy. I read the stories “in the original” day after day in the San Luis Obispo Tribune. Call ‘em up, pay the fees, and have them dig through their morgue. The stories are there and you can pay to get them. I don’t have to prove anything at all to an arrogant smart-ass like you.
Yet you asked me to do it.
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