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Title: LAWSUIT - HEAR IT: Medical staff mocked unconscious patient who unknowingly recorded them during colonoscopy
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URL Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat ... nt-operation-article-1.2268965
Published: Jun 24, 2015
Author: BY Jason Silverstein
Post Date: 2015-06-24 11:34:39 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Views: 179
Comments: 15
He was undergoing a colonoscopy, but the medical staff was the real pain in the butt. A Virginia man won a $500,000 lawsuit against an anesthesiologist and her practice after he unknowingly recorded them mocking and intentionally misdiagnosing him while he was unconscious, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. The man, a Vienna resident identified only as "D.B." in court records, went to Dr. Tiffany Ingham's Reston practice in April 2013, Courthouse News Service reported. He started recording the procedure, wanting to capture the doctor's instructions for post-operative care. He forgot to stop recording once he went under. Dr. Tiffany Ingham was heard mocking an unconscious patient and instructing her staff to misdiagnose him in a recording accidentally captured by the man, who successfully sued her and her practice. Only on his way home did he hear how sick the doctor and her assistants really were. "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 said almost as soon as he was unconscious, as heard in audio uploaded by the Post. Ingham warned an assistant not to touch a rash the man had because she might get "some syphilis on your arm." She also joked that the rash was "penis ebola" and "probably tuberculous in the penis." One assistant called the patient a "retard." The staff members wondered if the man was gay, and Ingham said she knew "gay men that have more manliness" than the patient. And she told her staff to write that he had hemorrhoids, which he did not. The staffers are heard mocking patients at large for their gullibility and over-reliance on medical advice from the Internet. Ingham, 42, no longer works at that practice. She relocated to a practice in Tavares, Fla., but it's unclear where she is working now, according to the Post. The man won the suit on claims of medical malpractice, punitive damages and defamation — $50,000 for the tuberculosis comment and another $50,000 for the syphilis one. "I've never heard of a case like this," defamation lawyer Lee Berlik told the Post, noting that doctors' comments are usually privileged, but in this case the recording caught the doctor and her staff talking about things far different from the work at hand. 
GoogleThe man unknowingly recorded the vile remarks by a doctor and her assistants during a colonoscopy at Dr. Tiffany Ingham's practice in Reston, Va.
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#1. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)
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Great find! Hope more people leave their phones on during procedures as a result -- accidentally on purpose. Wonder how many doctors are ridiculing the people they serve up.
============================================= More than we care to think about, but not so much as with the nursing staff I think. I don't know if doctors still swear to the Hippocratic Oath or not. I loathe hospitals for these reasons. From 1964: U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
Well, this cheers me up, I'm due for another 'scoping procedure
#2. To: NeoconsNailed (#1)
Wonder how many doctors are ridiculing the people they serve up.
#3. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)
-Alex Kurtagic
#4. To: X-15 (#3)
Check for 'excess lube' afterwards if the doctor has a high-pitched voice and winks at you before you go out.
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
#5. To: X-15 (#3)
Are you sure you should? How mandatory are they calling it? I think it's a bit of a racket. Well, this cheers me up, I'm due for another 'scoping procedure
#6. To: NeoconsNailed (#5)
Dad had colon cancer, it's mandatory for my brother and me
-Alex Kurtagic
#7. To: X-15 (#6)
I would not assume that, and trust you're aware that the procedure itself causes people serious trouble. If people would just eat and live healthily I think it would cut cancer rates in half or better..... I'm just full of opinions. Dad had colon cancer, it's mandatory for my brother and me
#8. To: NeoconsNailed (#7)
We both do all of that, but....my brother already had some small issues that Doc took care of. I am to expect the same. Sometimes genetics rears it's head. eat and live healthily
-Alex Kurtagic
#9. To: NeoconsNailed (#1)
I've been out under the knife 8-10 times. They always put me in a skimpy little gown that I suspect they stripped from me before they started cutting. Not sure where I could have hidden a phone? Hope more people leave their phones on during procedures as a result
#10. To: StraitGate (#9)
Oh, no -- you mean they saw you NAKED? Obviously I meant those who could hide a fone, though how that would work I can't imagine. Maybe it's staged and he's just a crisis actor? Padum-pum.
#11. To: StraitGate, NeoconsNailed, x-15 (#9) (Edited)
==================================================== The ORIGINAL STORY states: "Sitting in his surgical gown inside a large medical suite in Reston, Va., a Vienna man prepared for his colonoscopy by pressing record on his smartphone, to capture the instructions his doctor would give him after the procedure." My guess is the only way he STILL had access to his phone at that point was due to very lax procedural protocol being practiced by the unprofessional assholes doing the scope. Otherwise, in the majority of these type procedures, all personal effects are not allowed in the procedure room. They got caught, and their piss-poor ethics made him $500,000 richer. Good for him. I've been out under the knife 8-10 times. They always put me in a skimpy little gown that I suspect they stripped from me before they started cutting. Not sure where I could have hidden a phone?
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
#12. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#11)
Just a further thought -- the last I heard, the weird but good rule on recording conversation was that one party to it had to be aware it was happening. I'm thrilled the buy won the suit, but obviously neither he nor they knew the recorder was running?
#13. To: NeoconsNailed (#12)
======================================================= This case moved into the realm of MEDICAL MALPRACTICE. A completely different animal, and one in which large hospitals will gladly pay great sums to quickly bury the negative publicity. It can CLOSE a hospital, leaving hundreds of doctors, nurses, practitioners, janitors, landscapers very quickly without a job. Just a further thought -- the last I heard, the weird but good rule on recording conversation was that one party to it had to be aware it was happening. I'm thrilled the buy won the suit, but obviously neither he nor they knew the recorder was running?
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
#14. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#13)
It moved into it, but part of the award was for defamation. That itself is quaint since normally it would mean something more public -- wouldn't it? Not siding with the perps, I hate their guts despite the doc beings such an aryan princess. Curious.
#15. To: NeoconsNailed (#14) (Edited)
============================================== The original article had a footnote under her pic stating it had been 'APPROVED FOR RELEASE' by the 123rd Airlift Wing, Kentucky Air. She's an Air Guard doctor also. Does the same procedure ON generals, colonels, majors, captains, and E-1 airmen. Gotta love it. .. despite the doc beings such an aryan princess. Curious.
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
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