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

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

From: Leslie (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 29 Jun 2001 22:51:54 -0500 (CDT)

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>I work for a hospital and also recently had a TVH/BSO and would be mortified if this happened to me, although I don't have a tatoo, I feel that a patients privacy is very important. I think that you need to approach either the office manager for the doctor or the doctor himself. Confidentiality has been grossly abused if this infact true. You have to be able to trust your physician totally. Heck, I wouldn't stop with the Doc, I would contact the hospital administration if it was me.
>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??

--
Leslie

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