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/ryonnsan 11h ago

and because of this, no phone is allowed in the room during surgery. nice

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u/DeltaVexp 9h ago

Surgery or any operation involving a knocked out patient should absolutely be recorded.

A reminder that millions of unauthorized pelvic exams were carried out on anesthetised women WITHOUT their consent by medical students. A woman undergoing wrist surgery was subjected to a fucking pelvic exam by a student while she was unconscious.

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u/Fectiver_Undercroft 8h ago

I can think of a very small number of ways this could charitably be said to have happened by accident. How did this come to light? Did they try to bill her?

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u/WVildandWVonderful 8h ago

It’s not “by accident.” It’s just not disclosed.

There is an entire Wikipedia article about this.

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

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u/Fectiver_Undercroft 5h ago

Yeah, 3.5 million occurrences gets us well past the regime of “very few honest mistakes.”

Thank you for the link.

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u/crumpledCrow 8h ago

Google it.