r/interesting • u/tyrion2024 • 10h 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/DefinitionTop3930 9h ago

fyi the main issue was the false diagnosis record, not the insults. You can’t sue your doc for calling you an idiot

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u/spargel_gesicht 8h ago

Yeah, I would imagine everyone occasionally talks shit about their clients (except maybe, like, nuns?), but the lying on a medical record is a big deal.

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u/Sirrub90 7h ago

Nuns absolutely talk shit.

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u/NameNotAlreadyInUse 7h ago

I had a nun sit at my table during a charity dinner. She was telling us how she and two of her sisters got kicked out of the diocese owned home they were living in because the bishop decided he wanted a new priest to live there. She was saying things like “Apparently one male is worth more than three females.” while rolling her eyes. She was giving them hell.

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u/hoteppeter 6h ago

Kind of unrelated but I lived next door to a group of nuns that shared a home and smelled weed every time I walked past

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u/throwaway098764567 1h ago

hehehe i can tell you've never met a nun whoooo boy, kindness and light they are absolutely not

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u/spargel_gesicht 1h ago

Ha! Yeah I’m not Catholic. I guess I was thinking of Sound of Music, but even those nuns were all “Maria’s a flibbertigibbet!” So, yeah. Everyone shit talks! Oh! Except for the monks who take vows of silence??

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u/PositivePerson7 7h ago

A lot of doctors don’t. “MD” behind a name makes a lot of doctors very uninterested in making extra comments. For this exact reason.

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u/babesboysandbirb 7h ago

Tell me more about how you’ve never worked in the medical field….

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u/PositivePerson7 5h ago

Hah!!! Hahah.