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/Bhavacakra_12 11h ago

Cop behavior from the medical professionals honestly. Why be better people when you can handicap people's ability to catch misconduct?

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u/Ready-Rise3761 7h ago

sadly this is a common phenomenon (potentially linked to the fact that surgeons have a high psychopathy rate). There was a study about surgeons making degrading and objectifying remarks about naked and unconscious female patients. It showed that the presence of female nurses didn’t reduce the frequency of such remarks, only the presence of female doctors did.

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u/Sothdargaard 5h ago

I feel like this is pretty rare honestly. It's anecdotal of course but I assist in surgery (not a doctor) and have worked with hundreds of surgeons. I only ever met one who did this kind of stuff and it turns out he was SA patients in his clinic and got arrested so him talking crap about his patients was the least of their concerns.

I also work in the western US so I don't know if the attitude is different in the Midwest, South, Eastern US etc. but this behavior is pretty rare in my experience.

Also I'd like to point out there are tens of thousands of doctors in the US and they end up on the news or in court pretty rarely. Obviously there are some scumbag doctors out there and some of them get away with it but I would honestly guess it would be less than 2-3%.

Edits: phone typing corrections

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u/keygreen15 4h ago

I feel

Just stop right there.

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u/Sothdargaard 4h ago

I mean, it's just an expression. I could have easily said: In my experience.

Which is exactly what I shared.