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Guest • 10 years ago

It just makes me wonder how many hapless patients have been deliberately humiliated by their so-called "trusted" doctors and nurses once they've been put under, but they just haven't found out about it.

Kaya5255 • 10 years ago

Patients under anesthesia are violated regularly in teaching hospitals.
An unconsious patient is nothing more than a "lab rat" for medical students, interns, etc.
No one entering a hospital should just sign the consent form the patient registration people throw at you, unless and until you read it thoroughly!!
Signing it without reading it, gives the hospital total control of your person (body) and you have no recourse.
Consent forms DO NOT PROTECT CONSUMERS, they protect the facility and its agents.

WarmSocks • 10 years ago

Hard to even get a form now. We're asked to sign electronically, and have to make an issue about wanting a hard copy, which messes up the hospital's timetable.

Kaya5255 • 10 years ago

Dear WarmSocks,
May I ask if you are a consumer or a registrar?? Sounds as if you wanted to fully read the consent and got the bums shuffle because you actually wanted to read it before signing?? Good for you and I hope you crossed out objectionable parts of it!!

WarmSocks • 10 years ago

I'm a patient. At check-in I asked for a printed copy so I'd know what I was reading, but they did not have any and had to search. When they finally found it printed, they handed me a sheaf of papers and still wanted me to electronically sign immediately. There is no reason they couldn't have given me the consent form at my pre-op appointment, or posted it on their website if they are concerned about being truly paperless. Their resistance to letting me read it just made me all the more insistent that I know what I was giving permission for. Never sign a legal document without knowing what it says.

Anne-Marie • 10 years ago

Pasting stickers on an anesthetized patient because someone thinks it's funny? And then taking a photo? What is this - fourth grade?

What an embarrassment for the hospital, whose C-suite apparently isn't smart enough to recognize what a public relations disaster they have on their hands.

PinnacleBrainSpineCenter • 10 years ago

Frankly, the OR is a serious place not a place for pranking anybody. This goes beyond poor judgement or even a lack of professionalism. The mind boggles.

Skeptical Scalpel • 10 years ago

Thanks for the comments. I found it as appalling as you did and agree that the hospital made it worse.

Guest • 10 years ago

I've heard stories of anesthesiologists with a screw loose, to put it mildly, sexually abusing patients in the OR. I've heard those anecdotes for 30 years.

I've been in enough OR's, I've never seen such a thing, not even the mustache thing.

Not that I'm denying those things happen. Just that I've never seen it.

I remain amazed, that some operating suites are so pathological, that such things happen and no one is freaked out.