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/MaritMonkey 5h ago

compared nurses to cops

See also: when most of the people you interact with are having some of the worst days of their lives it pretty quickly becomes difficult to maintain a level of empathy that fosters compassion but also doesn't burn you the fuck out.

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u/Solarven987 5h ago

Yeah, I find myself quoting the whole Tress quote regarding empathy more and more, and I’m just the person who filters phone calls and gets nurses/aides from point A to point B.