Posted on 10/11/2022 10:07:36 AM PDT by jerod
Woman says her husband was degraded by having photos taken by health-care staff
A family on Newfoundland's Baie Verte Peninsula wants answers and accountability for what happened to their loved one in hospital, after Central Health told the family someone on staff took pictures of his genitals.
Rick Barker, 64, has Huntington's disease, and his condition now requires 24-hour care in a long-term care facility — in Barker's case, the long-term care unit at the Baie Verte Peninsula Health Centre in Baie Verte.
Bernice Barker said her son received a call from the regional health authority in mid-September informing the family that photos had been taken of Rick Barker's genitals and that immediate action had been taken.
But she said Central Health has been reluctant to share any details about what that action was beyond the fact that her husband is safe and that he suffered no physical harm.
"The only word for this is criminal, and sick. In my mind, it's sick," said Barker. "Charges should be laid, and I'm hoping they will be laid because I am not stopping until I have justice for my husband."
Family man struck down
Until six years ago, Rick Barker was living at home and enjoying life with his wife and family.
Bernice Barker described her husband as "the most kind, loving human being that God could have ever created, an amazing husband and father and grandfather."
But the progression of Huntington's disease — an inherited, degenerative brain disorder — meant that he had to be moved into long-term care. It was a hard blow to him and his family, according to his wife.
But she says they never could have imagined what was to come, with her vulnerable and helpless husband being degraded by someone on staff taking photos of his genitals.
"He's in the late stages of Huntington's, unaware of what's going on around him," said Barker. "To have somebody there that's incapacitated, and to have that image in your mind of somebody standing there with a camera, making light of his condition when he has no idea what's happening to him, it's brutal."...
On a serious note... It is sad state of affairs when you can't trust a nursing home to care for your loved one. There are some pretty sick people out there.
Sometimes nursing homes get the reputation they deserve. And that’s been going on for a long time.
If the Photographer worked for the FBI,
it shouldn’t be a problem
Socialized medicine is anti-human medicine
My brother-in-law told us 2 black nurses at the Philadelphia hospital made fun of his package as he lay there dying from cancer.
A lot of the staff are probably young women; under 30.
Working there as Medical Aides or CNA nurse assistants.
They grew up with phones being used in any setting, even private settings. Upon occassion, I’ve worked with people like this during the years I was a caregiver.
They were never taught that proper manners means you will ask someone’s permission before you snap their pic or make a 10 minute video about that patient, maybe showing the patient’s face in the video. A lot of them don’t seem to get how wrong that is.
They need on the job trainning about respecting the patient and displaying acceptable behavior while working or doing anything inside that facility. They probably won’t get that trainning, just a feeble warning not to ‘get caught doing it again!’
Sick and evil.
In health care , when a patient has a lesion on some part of the body, the staff( skin wound therapist) routinely take photos of the lesion to document it’s existence, and the extent of it, and how it changes(or doesn’t) with treatment. If this patient isn’t very mobile, he can “soil” himself, or if he has a urinary or rectal catheter he can develop rash or infection on skin in groin and perianal areas.
Wounds should be documented. Facility won’t be paid without proper documentation.
I wonder if that is a possibility in this case. Or some wacko is running loose in the facility.
It probably has something to do with a fag
We want to be pissed about it, dangit!
Lots of anger wiggle room with last sentence.
how did the facility find out there were pics of this guy out there?
https://archive.triblive.com/news/pennsylvania/upmc-bedford-hospital-staff-took-photos-of-patient-with-item-in-genitals/
Staff at a Pennsylvania hospital took pictures of a male patient’s private parts a few years back. The cell phone pictures were not for treatment reasons.
Snapping photos is routine in animal care settings, too; has nothing to do with the age of the staff - it’s just an efficient new way of communicating information to the physicians.
But if that were the case here, the photos would be part of the patient’s private record, and the facility wouldn’t have admitted it and said that ‘action was being taken’.
Of course, the photos could have been taken under the proper protocol, and then misused.
Today, Health care staff = former McDonald’s employees
Yes, there’s not enough info to know if the photo was taken for medical reasons.
But this:
“Bernice Barker said her son received a call from the regional health authority in mid-September informing the family that photos had been taken of Rick Barker’s genitals and that immediate action had been taken.”
Seems to suggest the photo was not authorized and those who took it were reprimanded in an unspecified manner.
I would venture a guess that the nurse who took the photo is “diverse.”
I still remember the woman, a long term resident who was in a vegetative state, who was impregnated by one of the staff members there. No one even noticed until she was moaning in painful labor.
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