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What's the big frickin' deal, the guy was unconscious. I have to think that people that spend their days rotorooting people's butts have to find humor where ever they can.
I'm sorry, I find so-called professionals making nasty comments and jokes about a patient or their anatomy unacceptable.
What if they were laughing and making nasty comments about your loved one.....your wife, your daughter, your son? Making jokes about your son's penis or your teen daughter's breasts?
This was an outpatient colonoscopy, not open heart surgery.
Even outpatient, you wear nothing but a hospital gown, because they require a sterile environment, and you ARE given anesthesia, so you have to have a driver.
This was a colonoscopy.....not an invasive surgery like an appendectomy that requires a completely sterile environment.
The patient probably put his phone in his pants pocket and his clothes were left in the procedure room.
Sounds perfectly plausible to me.
I had an out-patient colonoscopy last year. The first thing was going into a very large ward with a dozen or so partitioned off cubes each containing a surgical bed. I was instructed to remove all clothing, put on a gown, put those clothes as well as glasses, watch, cell phone in a bag which was then tied to foot of the bed. Then I was wheeled into the surgical room, the colonoscopy was done and then I was wheeled to a dressing cubicle, got dressed and my wife drove us home. I remember very little afterwards for an hour or so as I was under sedation.
This was at a major hospital. I assume the procedures are fairly similar at other facilities. There was no way to record anything. in fact, the drug procedure started before I got to the surgical room, I do remember it slightly but not in a lot of detail.
Medical staff joke around all the time when patients are unconscious.
Agree this is very inconsiderate of the staff involved. Does it make you wonder why they are suing the anesthesia company and not the GI doctor? Read the article again. They are suing the anesthesia company and not the anesthesiologists or the gastroenterologist.
What's the big frickin' deal, the guy was unconscious. I have to think that people that spend their days rotorooting people's butts have to find humor where ever they can.
True that!!! I'd hate having looking up some fat guys bunghole! I worked in a car shop for awhile as a youth. You should have heard some of the comments flying around the shop when the customers aren't around....
I had an out-patient colonoscopy last year. The first thing was going into a very large ward with a dozen or so partitioned off cubes each containing a surgical bed. I was instructed to remove all clothing, put on a gown, put those clothes as well as glasses, watch, cell phone in a bag which was then tied to foot of the bed. Then I was wheeled into the surgical room, the colonoscopy was done and then I was wheeled to a dressing cubicle, got dressed and my wife drove us home. I remember very little afterwards for an hour or so as I was under sedation.
This was at a major hospital. I assume the procedures are fairly similar at other facilities. There was no way to record anything. in fact, the drug procedure started before I got to the surgical room, I do remember it slightly but not in a lot of detail.
Sorry, I don't believe this happened.
BTW, in a colonoscopy you are NOT wearing pants.
If you had been recording post op instructions on your phone, forgot to turn it off, and it was in that bag with your clothes, tied to the foot of the bed you had the procedure on, why wouldn't it have recorded what was said?
And, all clinics aren't set up the same. What if his pants, with his phone in the pocket, still recording, were in a curtained off area of the procedure room where the patient changes into a gown?
People may find it "unacceptable" but it happens none the less. Kind of like how we talk about our friends and family behind their back. Don't pretend you never do.
If you had been recording post op instructions on your phone, forgot to turn it off, and it was in that bag with your clothes, tied to the foot of the bed you had the procedure on, why wouldn't it have recorded what was said?
And, all clinics aren't set up the same. What if his pants, with his phone in the pocket, still recording, were in a curtained off area of the procedure room where the patient changes into a gown?
No **** Sherlock.....did I say you are?
Nope, they asked. All electronic devices turned off. No exceptions.
As I wrote, this was out-patient at a large hospital. Very business like. The surgery rooms themselves didn't even have doors. Probably half dozen of these same kind of procedures going on at the same time with different doctors. The doctor I had scheduled 6-8 of them for that day himself.
Nope, they asked. All electronic devices turned off. No exceptions.
As I wrote, this was out-patient at a large hospital. Very business like. The surgery rooms themselves didn't even have doors. Probably half dozen of these same kind of procedures going on at the same time with different doctors. The doctor I had scheduled 6-8 of them for that day himself.
And what if you forgot to turn it off?
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