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/WVildandWVonderful 6h ago

Share for the class how you got your screening.

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u/Quovadisdomi 1h ago

It was a poop swab test. I had just been reading about how much colon cancer was spreading amongst milenials and asked for a screening test at a physical. The screening found blood in my stool (invisible to the eye) and that led to a colonoscopy which found a tumor.