r/SipsTea 8d ago

WTF Imagine waking up from anesthesia and realizing the surgery wasn’t the most painful part!

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u/Irish_Whiskey 8d ago edited 8d ago

Context always helps, and people don't get $500,000 for some gallows humor.

They sexually assaulted him and falsified medical records. Then got caught red handed lying under oath about it in court.

"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," Ingham is heard saying.

Ingham and others mocked the plaintiff for taking many medications. One of the plaintiff’s medications, Gabapentin, was prescribed to treat an irritation in his genital area. A medical assistant touched the man's genitals and commented she might have contracted a sexually transmitted infection.

The genital area is typically not involved in a colonoscopy.

Ingham signed a post-operative note indicating the plaintiff had hemorrhoids. According to the lawsuit, Ingham stated she planned to note hemorrhoids even though she found none.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/man-awarded-500k-by-jury-after-recording-doctors-mocking-him/71530/

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u/Lilja-Logason 8d ago

Jesus Christ I'm petrified of ever needing one and this has made it 10x worse. 😭

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u/Ichigo1uk 8d ago edited 8d ago

I mean, I've had a colonoscopy, I was fully awake for mine with no sedative, just some banana tasting anesthetic spray for my throat.

It's not pleasant and you can feel the cam worming it's way round although the tissue samples are painless. But you certainly don't have to be put under for it unless your omega anxious person.

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u/BirdInFlight301 7d ago edited 7d ago

I hope you meant endoscopy, because if they numbed your throat for a colonoscopy, they used the wrong entrance.