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/Adonoxis 6h ago

This whole thread is a cesspit of anti-intellectualism and anti-physician sentiment. Yes, plenty of terrible physicians out there (my wife is a physician and I know some terrible doctors) but people acting like all doctors have god complexes is just stupid. The vast majority of doctors are PCPs and pediatricians who are vastly underpaid and overworked in the US. People are just throwing out attacks based on anecdotes.

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u/BadAtCoding123 5h ago edited 5h ago

PCPs and pediatricians who are vastly underpaid and overworked in the US

Doctors are underpaid and overworked everywhere tbh, not just the US. I'm from Sri Lanka and my parents are doctors, and they worked 80 hour weeks most of their professional lives for about the same pay as an engineer or accountant working 40-50 hours a week. 

And yes a lot of doctors are assholes and miss things. Most people will not be at their best when they haven't had a full night of sleep in 15 years tbh.  The only way to change things is to have more doctors everywhere in the world, and have them paid the same or more as they are right now but work a lot less hours. 

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u/Adonoxis 3h ago

I'm in the US so I have no idea about other countries. I would never assume elsewhere.