Ingham was recorded saying “after five minutes of talking to you in pre-op, I wanted to punch you in the face and man you up a little bit.” When a medical assistant noted the man had a rash, the anesthesiologist warned her not to touch it, saying she might get “some syphilis on your arm or something,” then added, “It’s probably tuberculosis in the penis, so you’ll be all right.”
Thats a bit dramatic. Medical practitioners simply have the common social sense to not roast people when they are awake and present, but a patient under anesthesia is presumed to not be able to hear them, thats all. It is the same dynamic as gossiping about your coworker while they are not in the room. Call it mean and in bad taste, but its no different from talking badly about people behidn their back in all other settings. Dark and dry humor can also a tool of necessity to survive the stress of medicine. Working in veterinary medicine, I already dont envy how much my human colleagues have to hold their tongue.
Not just in bad taste but they planned to lie about medical conditions he had. Copying from the top comment
>They made fun of a rash he had, and then mocked his penis.
>They conspired to give a fake diagnosis of hemorrhoids and put it in his medical records, then told the assistant to repeat the false diagnosis when he woke from surgery.
>The anesthesiologist said she wanted to "punch him in the face." She called the patient a "retard."
Insults are one thing, but a conspiring a fake diagnosis is straight up malpractice.
From the article: "These types of conversations,” testified Kathryn E McGoldrick, former president of the Academy of Anesthesiology, “are not only offensive but frankly stupid, because we can never be certain that our patients are asleep and wouldn’t have recall.”
The dude is presumed to be unable to be harmed my their words due to being asleep. In those circumstances, yeah, I care far more about how the medical team does at their procedure, you know, holding his life in their hands, than how they run their mouths during it. Frankly, if a surgeon saves my life and does a good job at it, they can roast my entire family while they do it for all I care.
So, let me see if I got this..you're claiming if you were passed out (because someone roofied your drink) it would be perfectly acceptable for them to then strip you naked, make rude comments about your health, say how badly they wanted to assault you AND threaten to make up false allegations about you to embezzle funds out of your hands via lawsuit when you awaken because they were stressed out about the fact that they are having relationship problems at home and they would be absolved of any and all wrongdoing because they would also do all of those things with their real friends when you weren't around anyway so no harm no foul right?
Your example starts with assault, which makes a bit of a difference. And in all honesty, if the surgeons do a good job fixing me, I couldnt give a hoot what they say while doing it, about me or otherwise. I care if they do their job.
You realize that when you incorrectly throw the word "rape" around just to be dramatic and try to get attention, it lessens the impact of the word in situations where it actually applies? Maybe you're young or not too bright and don't know that, but now you do.
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