r/interesting • u/tyrion2024 • 11h ago

MISC. A Virginia man inadvertently left his phone recording while he was under anesthesia for a colonoscopy, which captured audio of the doctors: mocking him, instructing a medical assistant to lie to him, and discussing giving him a false diagnosis of hemorrhoids. In 2015, a jury awarded him $500,000.

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u/FrogsMakePoorSoup 10h ago

Ya what? Do people simply not get them then? 

I was zonked out for mine!

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u/gingerbears11 9h ago

I wasn't given any anesthesia when I had to get my uterus scraped with a blade.

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u/Gas_Hag 9h ago

Because healthcare doesn't care about women.

I've been there too, having to raw dog intrauterine procedures. Sending you a solidarity hug.

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u/gingerbears11 8h ago

Thanks! I have to have it done again ugh. Hugs to you!

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u/flysslys 8h ago

I had the same procedure it was awful and so sore 😞

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u/mdavis360 9h ago

Holy moly I’m so sorry.

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u/petrilexi 10h ago

I'm in the UK and they gave me concious sedation, which is fentanyl and midazolam. It was supposed to result in me not remembering the procedure but I think I'm too highly strung so it didn't really work.

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u/FoxSideOfTheMoon 9h ago

That's all they do here too but you're not supposed to know what's going on. Both times I "woke up" or remember parts of it. I remember one part hurting. I remember another time looking at the monitor going "whoa is that my ass???"

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u/RaspberryJammm 7h ago

No  in the UK they don't sedate you to the point where you don't know whats going on- you are happy and relaxed but conscious.  My doctor even asked if I wanted to be angled so I could watch the video and then he chatted to me about it while doing the procedure.

I also know people who have had an endoscopy and colonoscopy without any sedation, just local anaesthetic.  

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u/FoxSideOfTheMoon 6h ago

Now that would be an interesting experience.. Honestly I liked being out for whatever part of out was. Like the best sleep I've ever had

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u/IamMatthew1223 1h ago

I get a colonoscopy every year and same here. It just doesn't seem to affect me so now they give me fent and midazolam plus they give me gas&air. I get to spend around 8 minutes of the 15-20minute colonoscopy pain free, after that it is excrutiating.

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u/1115955 56m ago

That stuff was amazing for me. I do remember some things but there was zero pain or anxiety. The first time I've felt fully relaxed in years was right after my colonoscopy (yes I have anxiety). Still think back fondly.

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u/ambinalcrossimg 7h ago

in germany i got propofol for my upper endoscopy and it was awesome

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u/kronicno_tele 10h ago

Most of Europe doesn’t use anesthesia either. We chat with the doctors ans watch the screen. Colon doesn’t have nerve endings, the scope itself doesn’t hurt.

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u/IamMatthew1223 1h ago

It's not the scope going in thats the issue, its the air or water or whatever it is they use to widen the colon so they can see. Fills me up like a balloon until at some point it becomes the most excrutiating pain ive ever experienced. They give me Fentanyl, Midazolam and Nitrous oxide yet im still writhing around in agony and I remember every little detail of the procedure afterwards. I hate colonoscopies, the fact I need a camera up there every year sucks. Rigid sigmoidoscopies are more managable.

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u/Sharp-Sky64 10h ago

No they’re reasonably common. We just don’t usually sedate people for it

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u/Lina0042 9h ago

Sedation is not the same as anesthesia. Sedation is much lighter, you continue breathing on your own without a machine. I was sedated before my colposcopy. Nobody really asked about anything for that.

Now I'm about to do a minor surgery with full anaesthetisa and I've been running around getting blood work, EKG and whatnot so everyone feels good about my chances to survive the anesthesia. Much more risky medically than sedation

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u/TheOnesWhoFollow 9h ago

Really? Had one in Nova Scotia about 6 years ago and I was out. They don't put you fully under, they give you a cocktail of meds. Mine was a mixture of fentanyl and versed. I remember waking up a little around the half way mark and they upped the dose a bit.

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u/Erathen 10h ago

 You take it like a man

Are men in Canada regularly taking things up the butt?

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u/Clair_Osbcurious 10h ago

Well, they are partly French so…

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u/Particular_Class4130 9h ago

Canadian here and while I haven't had one I know several people who have, including my mom, and you definitely get drugged up for the procedure. My neighbor had one last year and he said they gave him fentanyl