A surgical team mocks a sedated patient — and it’s all recorded

[Miles Archer]

A surgical team mocks a sedated patient — and it’s all recorded

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-surgical-team-mocks-a-sedated-patient-%e2%80%94-and-it%e2%80%99s-all-recorded/ar-AAc1mKn?ocid=AARDHP

Sitting in his surgical gown inside a large medical suite in Reston, a Vienna man prepared for his colonoscopy by pressing record on his smartphone, to capture the instructions his doctor would give him after the procedure.

But as soon as he pressed play on his way home, he was shocked out of his anesthesia-induced stupor: He found that he had recorded the entire examination, and that the surgical team had mocked and insulted him as soon as he drifted off to sleep.

And 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.

“After five minutes of talking to you in pre-op,” the anesthesiologist told the sedated patient, “I wanted to punch you in the face and man you up a little bit,” she was recorded saying.

[msongs]

1. patients should be allowed to audio record all medical procedures if they so choose. the medical

team have no expectation of privacy as they are performing a procedure as work for hire agents of the patient

[snooper2]

2. Intertubes are so awesome...be a complete fucking asshole

have it recorded forever!




Tiffany M. Ingham, 42




Dr. Soloman Shah, MD

[Runningdawg]

3. I am retired RN

who worked in the OR nearly my entire career. This is the tip of the iceberg.

Surgeon speaking of overweight woman in stirrups for a vaginal procedure:
Someone tie a rope around my waist, I'm going in.

Surgeon to nurse asking what update she can give the patients family:
Tell them to meet me at the ATM before this ungrateful prick dies on me.

Surgeon speaking to nurse about a man about ready to have a urology procedure:
Nurse get me a microscopic I need to find this mans penis.

Male Nurse speaking of F patient undergoing procedure to tighten anal sphincter:
That shits been plowed more times than my grandmas garden.
Of course if my wife had a face like that, I'd flip her over too.

Just a FEW of the least easily forgotten.

[Miles Archer]

7. I had my tonsils out when I was 26. I was yelled at on the slab in the recovery room.

I was still out of it. I said something like "I'm cold" and the intern, a guy, said "That's because you keep knocking off the covers, you stupid fuck." He thought I was too out of it to hear him or just didn't give a damn. Probably a little of both.

[GreatGazoo]

4. This stuff is legendary. Several guides to the smack they will say right in front of patients:

Cowboys and fleas: Doctors don't only bad-mouth their patients; they also bad-mouth each other. Hospitals are full of rivalries between departments, Goldman writes. Surgeons may be called "cowboys" to imply they operate first and think later, while internists can be criticized as "fleas," an acronym for "fucking little esoteric assholes," as one doctor put it. Urologists might take offense at being calling "plumbers," and anesthesiologists for being referred to as "gas passers." FOOBA, which means "found on orthopedics barely alive," is another insult suggesting that orthopedic surgeons successfully fix bones while missing other signs of disease.

http://www.motherjones.com/media/2015/04/what-doctors-are-really-saying-about-you

Also:
http://www.cracked.com/article_16302_8-medical-terms-your-doctor-uses-to-insult-you.html

[lame54]

5. That was definitely rude but $500,000?

that's ridiculous

[hunter]

6. I worked in a hospital that had an asshole transplant surgeon.

Technically he wasn't a bad surgeon, not a great one either, but he was a notorious bully, especially towards women.

The rat bastard never got on my case, maybe for no other reason than I was bigger than him and male.

He eventually got himself fired, blowing up at a female hospital executive (and worse) but I'm sure he quickly found employment elsewhere in some regressive place where they accepted his mansplaining.

I also worked with transplant nurses and techs, mostly women. They were the sweetest people on earth, but away from the families of donors and patients, their humor was very dark. They were the people who put the body parts in the Igloo picnic cooler, and a few times I got to carry these from the operating room to the helicopter.

march on, smile grimly, because screaming is unprofessional and frightens others.

Dark humor I understand, but there's never any excuse for being mean.

[mnhtnbb]

8. When we lived in Lincoln, NE, a very successful proctologist had a vanity license plate

on his very fancy car: Uranus.

Driving around town bragging about the source of funds for his very fancy car.

Uh, who's the a$$hole?