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Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 2749
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - 09:58 pm: | 
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To go in for surgery is to become vulnerable. We're put under anesthesia and, in some cases, literally opened up for others to see. But we trust that the professionals involved have our best interests at heart and whatever might be revealed about us will be kept confidential.
Alas, sometimes it's not.
The Arizona Republic reported this week that a surgeon at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix couldn't resist the urge to share what he found during a recent gall bladder operation. It seems that when Adam Hansen, the chief resident of general surgery at the hospital, was attaching a catheter to the patient, he noticed that the patient had the phrase "Hot Rod" tattooed on his penis. So he snapped a picture with his cellphone and showed his colleagues. And then one of those colleagues called the Arizona Republic.
The Republic interviewed the patient, who said that Hansen called him to apologize and "He told me he didn't want me to read about it in the newspaper first." Nice. The patient also said Hansen told him he had erased the picture almost immediately (you know, after showing everyone in the office).
Said the patient to the Republic: "[The Mayo Clinic was] supposedly the best of the best. I have no complaints about the medical care I was given. But now I feel violated, betrayed and disgusted. I've never been in a hospital and (my) first experience is the worst thing ever." (He also added that "It was the most horrible thing I ever went though in my life," though it's unclear from the story whether he's talking about the picture or the experience of getting the tattoo.)
The Republic reports that Mayo has been investigating after one of the surgical support staff reported the incident to the administration and the punishment for Hansen could range from probation to termination...
http://blog.bioethics.net/2007/12/surgery-is-not-photojournalism/
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 11803
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - 11:41 am: |
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 This has to be the first time a gall bladder ever got a penis exposed
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Ferociouskitty
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Username: Ferociouskitty
Post Number: 128
Registered: 02-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - 01:38 pm: |
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I wondered if the surgeon took a pic because the "Hot Rod" designation was...shall we say, ironic or unwarranted? Teehee. |
Libralind2
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Username: Libralind2
Post Number: 1020
Registered: 09-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 09, 2008 - 01:00 am: |
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