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/KeanGilbert 6h ago

Virginia is a one-party consent state, as far as I know

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u/hobbes747 6h ago

I thought that only applies to public property or the property of the one recording?
The hospital is a public place but also privately owned so their attorneys might have argued that.

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u/Stardatara 5h ago

Surely that doesn't apply if the one party is unconscious, right?

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u/Rumpelteazer45 3h ago

It is. The only thing that’s illegal is to secretly record a conversation if you aren’t a part of one. One can argue that even under anesthesia you are a party to whatever conversation is occurring around you.