WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for June, 2001: Re: Upsetting O.R. story..would appreciate opinions!

Re: Upsetting O.R. story..would appreciate opinions!

From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 29 Jun 2001 22:08:12 -0500 (CDT)

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If you know for sure that this is accurate, I would request my records and run! The fact that a medical professional would allow his patient's huh huh to be a freak show for his fellow staff is just plain twisted and unprofessional.

At Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Anonymous wrote: >
>Hi All:
>
>Today I was talking to an O.R. tech that I know and she was telling me
>about a situation that happened in her assigned O.R. Apparrantly, there
>was a patient who had a very erotic, explicit tatoo in her pubic area.
>The O.R. staff got quite a kick out of it and before she knew it, O.R.
>staff from other areas of were coming in to look at the tatoo after the
>patient was asleep, before the procedure began (gynecologic)anyway, the
>physician involved is my physician and I have had numerous surgeries
>with him. I am not proud of my body..I am overweight (working on losing
>weight with diet and exercise) and I am totally appalled at the fact
>that something may have been said while I was under. I worked at this
>hospital for a number of years. Where I work now,this does not go on
>and the staff is VERY professional, noone is running in the room for the
>sake of "just looking" ...only people directly involved in the surgery
>are in the room. This girl also told me that people actually request to
>be in this doctor's room. She also said that he just kept smirking as
>people were commenting. I am very upset by this and am considering
>pulling my records and changing to someone else only because I now feel
>too self-concious to be around him! After years of respecting his
>professionalism with me and the way I could be open with him..I now
>don't trust him! I might mention that this girl happened to be related
>to the patient but noone knew. Has this happened in your O.R.?? Should
>the doctor have stopped it?? (I think so).
>
>Comments/Opinions??

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