![]() ![]() The anesthesiologist called her a “retard” and the surgeon stated he felt sorry for her husband and referred to the patient as “Precious” which she alleged was a racial slur. During the abdominal surgery, members of the medical team are heard joking in an offensive manner about the patient’s belly button. In 2016, a Texas patient hid a tiny recording device the size of a USB drive in her hair during surgery for the stated reason that she just had a bad feeling about her surgeon and wanted a record of the events in the OR for her family in the event something went wrong. The anesthesiologist and gastroenterologist were recorded disparaging the man and other patients for what they described as bad attitudes. Upon waking, the patient listened to the recording and heard members of the medical team making derogatory and unfounded remarks joking that they suspected he had syphilis, Ebola, and tuberculosis. ![]() The man had left his cell phone on and in his pocket during the outpatient procedure. In a well-publicized case from Virginia in 2015, a jury awarded a patient $500,000 because an anesthesiologist and others mocked him during a colonoscopy while sedated. It is safe to say that if you have not yet had this issue present itself in your practice, you will at some point in the near future. In a survey of 128 patients in Britain, researchers found that 15 percent acknowledged secretly recording their encounter. For physicians, there’s a good chance at least one of your last 10 patients recorded their visit, with or without your permission, according to research from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. These recordings can be performed either with permission or surreptitiously. Just as people record more and more of life’s events, many now record conversations with their physicians and other healthcare providers. Everyone has a pocket-sized, easy-to-use audio/video recording device – a cell phone. ![]()
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