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    MattJay Hathaway
    6/24/15 3:59pm

    Looking forward to the follow up where every chuckle fuck that was in that room loses their respective licenses for malpractice.

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      Governor McCheeseMatt
      6/24/15 4:06pm

      To be fair, the patient filed a lawsuit based on being the butt of jokes, so it’s hardly a stretch to think that he is generally an annoying pain in the ass. Also, you want to see people lose their licenses for making jokes behind a patient’s back (or so they thought)? Every family lawyer I know would be disbarred by your standard.

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      PigsqueelMatt
      6/24/15 4:07pm

      well, that won’t happen, so you better move on.

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    Jennifer C. MartinJay Hathaway
    6/24/15 4:06pm

    How many asshole medical professionals are about to start instituting strict no cell phone policies during procedures? Or it could go the other way—EVERY surgery/medical procedure will be recorded and shown to patient afterward.

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      Lingua PuraJennifer C. Martin
      6/24/15 4:14pm

      Actually, I was wondering how this would work for HIPAA laws, but I guess if it’s you recording your own procedure, it’s not an issue?

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      Jennifer C. MartinLingua Pura
      6/24/15 4:22pm

      right, everyone is saying matter-of-factly “oh they should implement this immediately” but the second Jim Bob the hospital janitor breaks in to steal the recording of June Betty’s breast augmentation surgery, it’s another crop of lawsuits

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    #NotAllYzermanJay Hathaway
    6/24/15 4:19pm

    $500,000? For what damages, hurt feelings? As a medmal attorney (defense), this is fucking absurd.

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      smarterblonde#NotAllYzerman
      6/24/15 4:25pm

      As a plaintiffs’ med mal attorney, I agree with you that the damages are absurd. Getting one’s feelers hurt by a doc is not med mal. The falsification of med recs with the false diagnosis is worth something- but probably only a nominal amount in reality. I imagine that this verdict will be appealed. It should be, at least.

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      Matt#NotAllYzerman
      6/24/15 4:35pm

      Please read the part about the whole false diagnosis and falsifying of medical records. If you're a medmal attorney, then you're a poor one and I fucking feel for any doctors you represent.

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    the big canadianJay Hathaway
    6/24/15 4:01pm

    You can call my penis whatever you like for 500 g’s

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      MrFancyPantsthe big canadian
      6/24/15 4:04pm

      Some people PAY good money for that!!

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      Dolemitethe big canadian
      6/24/15 4:05pm

      Half a million? Hell, take the whole thing. Do you have anything to cut with? Never mind, here are some scissors.

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    김치전!Jay Hathaway
    6/24/15 4:02pm

    Isn’t “Snide Remarks about Unconscious Patients” an entire subsection of the anesthesiology boards?

    I mean, why else would you go to med school to spend your entire career as an overpaid meter-reader?

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      Stella Fisher김치전!
      6/24/15 4:06pm

      Becoming an anesthesiologist is like saying I don’t care about medicine;I’m here for the cash grab. It’s really really not surprising that an anesthesiologist would be a jerk.

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      Virginialoveshercurves김치전!
      6/24/15 4:15pm

      Because you actually can schedule your life in advance. Most doctors don’t have that luxury.

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    KlassyBobJay Hathaway
    6/24/15 3:58pm

    The medical community will keep this from happening in the future...

    by confiscating patients phones and other possible recording devices before procedures.

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      PopChipsJay Hathaway
      6/24/15 4:06pm

      I’m not sure if I’m more stunned by the incredible lack of ethics and professionalism demonstrated by these doctors or the fact that tuberculosis of the penis is a real thing.

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        BoxTurtlePopChips
        6/24/15 10:43pm

        I’m concerned that they apparently observed some kind of infection or sore on his penis, and didn’t refer him to a urologist to get it checked out!

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      lobstrJay Hathaway
      6/24/15 5:53pm

      “ And because Virginia is a one-party consent state, the recording was admissible in court.”

      There’s an interesting point to be had — hopefully even if they were not in a one-party consent state, they’d find a way to grant an exclusion — I mean, how the hell else would he ever have any recourse and proof of this? If it could be argued that the two dumbshits’ rights were violated by being recorded doing these things, the whole idea of non-one-party consent sounds totally idiotic.

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        EveryTimeIGetFollowedByGroupthinkILoseMyBurnerKeylobstr
        6/24/15 9:29pm

        I’m wondering the same thing, as I live in a two-party consent state.

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        lobstrEveryTimeIGetFollowedByGroupthinkILoseMyBurnerKey
        6/25/15 10:47am

        I was going to use the phrase “two-party” but in this very case, there were two parties both unaware of the recording, three parties altogether... but for simplicity’s sake do they still just call it ‘two-party’?

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      mtdriftJay Hathaway
      6/24/15 8:15pm

      The ignorance and arrogance of most of the doctors I know astounds me. Does medical school do that to them? I have yet to meet a doctor that I find to be even half-way intelligent.

      Good at memorizing shit? Yes. Good with their hands? Maybe. Smart? Not really.

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        ItsHapenningAgainmtdrift
        6/24/15 10:27pm

        M.D. here can validate your statement and then some. Most of my colleagues are technocrats with generally unimpressive creative and critical thinking abilities, beyond pattern recognition and rote memorization. Many are overtly anti-intellectual. Their arrogance comes from insecurity, born of the awareness that they aren’t nearly as impressive as they thought they were just because they were accepted into medical school. Case in point, Dr. Tiffany - she ridicules her patient for attending a college she feels is unimpressive; meanwhile, she attended a medical school that is considered middling at best. The lack of empathy and people skills comes from living a sheltered life spent in school and training mostly hanging around like-minded individuals. This episode provides as good an argument for increasing diversity in medical school as any.

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        mtdriftItsHapenningAgain
        6/25/15 1:09am

        You are a smart doctor, clearly. An exception that proves the rule.

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      MattJay Hathaway
      6/24/15 3:58pm

      At press time, it wasn’t clear if the doctor or her staff had drawn a crude penis on the man’s face with a Sharpie.

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        $kaycogMatt
        6/24/15 4:05pm
        GIF

        Yep.

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