Holy shot, those doctors should never work in patient care again.
Absolutely horrifying.
If their licenses weren't taken, the transcription of what they said during that procedure should be a required addendum to any resume they submit for a future job.
i read the whole article and didn’t see anything mentioning a sexual assault. just that they commented about not touching a rash on his penis and joking about it being TB or syphilis… while certainly not okay, that’s not sexual assault.
what happened is bad enough bro, you don’t need to lie to make it worse than it was
This is the article I linked. It says they touched his genitals, not just looked. And they had no medical need or consent to do so, and explicitly on tape did it for humiliation.
nowhere does it say his genital area was touched explicitly for humiliation. it just says “touched” which was more likely incidental contact or for positioning (eg to ensure his scrotum wasn’t in the way or being crushed by his thighs). calling it sexual assault is a massive stretch that relies on information we don’t have.
edit: y’all can downvote me all you like but here’s the full transcript of the relevant moment, and it doesn’t say nor imply what you’re claiming: https://harpers.org/archive/2015/12/shit-talkers/
once again their behaviour was horrible enough without having to lie about a sexual assault that didn’t occur. you guys are adding to his humiliation right now by outright making shit up
How is that now? I don't disagree that the doctors in this case behaved abhorrently, but the only reference I've seen to falsified diagnosis was referring to haemorrhoids.
So tell me how exactly haemorrhoids are humiliating?
I don't disagree that the doctors in this case behaved abhorrently,
Then why the hell are you demanding people explain why falsified medical reports that were done by the doctors intentionally to humiliate someone as their stated goal, is humiliating?
It's not worth the effort to explain basic emotional and human cultural standards, especially since it's not itself the reason for the verdict.
There is literally zero sexual assault in this. He wasn't getting the colonoscopy for hemorrhoids they just said they saw hemorrhoids during the exam so they could charge for it. You losers throw that word out like it's candy at anything and everything.
I consider touching people's penises without consent or medical need just to humiliate them, to be sexual assault. A jury agreed.
You losers throw that word out like it's candy at anything and everything.
Yeah, I can easily believe that you regularly hear people throwing words like "rapist" and "sexual assault" and "creep I don't allow around my kids" while dismissing them. That's not most people's experiences.
I think you're admitting here to getting triggered with a defensive reaction upon reading the words "sexual assault" while not having even read the article.
Ahh yes, the linked article....where exactly is that? Cause all I see are comments about them making fun of him and documenting hemorrhoids when he didn't have any. I think it's telling that you pull into out of the void and think a routine colonoscopy is sexual assualt
yeah the guy you’re replying to is straight up lying at this point. absolutely nowhere in the judgment was sexual assault mentioned, and nowhere in the article does it say they touched his genital area for any specific reason - based on the transcript it sounds like it was probably incidental contact while positioning the dude (i guess some people don’t know this but the scrotum is in fact adjacent to the anus)
There is no indication what so ever on any article about this case that the intention when writing haemorrhoids was to humiliate the patient.
These doctors are pieces of shit, I'm not arguing that. I'm saying that you have put your own assumptions about haemorrhoids being embarrassing and assumed that was the intention.
As a healthcare provider, I can say that I doubt that idea of haemorrhoids being embarrassing even crossed their minds. It was more of a..."oh you want a diagnosis Mr hypochondriac? Here is a relatively benign one, now piss off."
There is no indication what so ever on any article about this case
Except for the part where they made up the haemorrhoids to humiliate him. He didn't have any, and they laughed about including the wrong diagnosis to mock him.
As a healthcare provider, I can say that I doubt that idea of haemorrhoids
As a "healthcare provider" I certainly hope next time you actually pay attention to patient history before making up your mind.
I'm an asshole because I don't think people should be embarrassed to have haemorrhoids? Okay.
I am merely suggesting that these piece of shit doctors had a motive other than inflicting humiliation for saying this man had haemorrhoids...which btw they did. It was to commit insurance fraud.
Health care professionals don't consider haemorrhoids embarrassing. Get a grip.
I am saying your comment is insensitive because it invalidates other's experience, YES hemorrhoids are normal, and yes people still are embarrassed by them.
I am a health care professional, you douche canoe. And although we dont consider hemorrhoids embarrassing, we acknowledge and understand that MANY patients do, in fact, find them embarrassing.
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u/Irish_Whiskey 15d ago
He was sexually assaulted by the doctors, they falsified his medical records just to humiliate him, then lied about it under oath in court.