Transgender woman records conversation of surgical staff that occured while she was unconscious

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/nyregion/transgender-patient-records-during-cancer-surgery.html

It frustrated her that she was unconscious at the most crucial moments — as the surgeon removed each cancerous mass. What if the surgeon said something important, a stray comment that no one bothered to tell her about after the anesthesia wore off? She decided to record her next surgery, on March 7, 2022, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the renowned Manhattan hospital.

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The surgeon removed part of her lung. She did not get around to playing the recording until a few weeks later. Though the audio was muffled, she could follow some of what the surgical team was saying before the procedure began. Someone was going out for coffee — did anyone want something from Starbucks? The conversation then shifted.

“ — still has man parts.”

It seemed to Ms. Capasso that they were talking about her genitalia.

On the recording, the health care workers express a variety of opinions about transgender identity more generally. “Not that it’s not right, but — ” one person can be heard saying. “I don’t get any of it,” another says.

And in the middle of the conversation, one person suggests updating Ms. Capasso’s medical file. “Yeah, it needs to say ‘male,’” the person says.

Ms. Capasso said it appeared that hospital staff had in fact changed her electronic medical records, all while she was unconscious.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/nyregion/transgender-patient-records-during-cancer-surgery.html?unlocked_article_code=1.508.LmoG.ZKU_j3WH4zPy&smid=url-share

[underpants]

1. Wow.

[MustLoveBeagles]

2. Wrong on so many levels

What transgender people have to put up with is shameful. SMDH.

[DSandra]

4. In a blue state and city, no less...

[Ilsa]

3. There should be black boxes in surgical suites.

Surgical teams can review their performance. And patients could obtain access. Maybe conversation would stay relevant if they knew they were being recorded.

Don't airline pilots have to keep conversations about only what is happening in the moment from certain points after they leave the gate?

[Zelda_Orchid]

6. Yep. "Sterile" in more ways than one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile_flight_deck_rule

[Just_Vote_Dem]

5. I was a lab tech in a hospital in the Northeast (very blue area)

One night a self inflicted gunshot wounded patient came in, and apparently he was an overweight guy who shot himself in the stomach. Most of the other techs thought this was hilarious and laughed about it most of the night. I think I was the only person who felt sorry for the guy.