In her hair?
Posted on 04/07/2016 1:49:29 PM PDT by Gamecock
He fake erases.
Anything is possible, and as your comment reminds me, there are two sides to every story. Perhaps “Precious” didn’t have the common sense and social savvy to know enough not to tick off those who would soon have her in a vulnerable position!
She has the legal right to record in this state-and we do have a ceiling on med malpractice suits, to prevent us from becoming like California with all the litigation-but I don’t know if her complaint would be limited-it seems too frivolous for court...
If I were an insurance co, I’d give her a bit of cash, but not much-and I would probably punish the stupid OR staff by raising their rates or cancelling them-med personnel seem to forget that people are their customers, not their captives...
In her hair?
“But they did have a reasonable expectation of privacy.”
In days of old yes. But in our fundamentally transformed culture, privacy has all but been taken out of the dictionary.
Looking for a big unearned pay day.
Bingo. “I just decided to hide a recorder in my hair,” on the off chance that there would be some comment that would entice an ambitious plaintiff’s attorney into rolling the dice.
Thailand?
I’ve heard some wild stories about doctors and nurses passing the time during surgery. It’s a big deal to us, but routine and somewhat boring to everyone else in the room. They stay entertained and sometimes at the expense of the patient.
I really don’t want legal protections for people not to say things about you when you are not present...whether you are out of the room or in the room drugged out for surgery. At the end of the day, it goes back to sticks and stones.
What was that your grandmother used to warn you about those who eavesdrop never hearing anything good about themselves?
Yes! I'm unconscious. Talk about me all you want....cause I can't hear and I don't care what you say because I am out like a light. Just successfully do what you said you'd do during pre-op and I'm happy!
Sure. As if none of the medicos have cell phones on them.
Beat me to it
No matter how ambitious the attorney, she is unlikely to get a big payday in this state-Texas has limits on medical lawsuits-I don’t know if her complaint would be limited-but I’m not so sure it would even make it to court-like I said, it seems frivolous to me, but I’m looking at it from the view of someone dealing with insurance as a big part of my job-I think it ought to be settled by the insurance carrier and offended person-and maybe her attorney-but not in court.
I’ve worked as a case manager in both private and public sector-private sector has draconian rules, but even with a private company, if I said anything snide or disparaging about a client that the company was contracted to provide services to, I’d better be saying it after we closed for the day, or when there were no clients in the building-otherwise, I would be reprimanded in writing, and probably fired with a bad reference. During business hours, that client/customer was king...
After hours or when we had closed for the day, however, I can tell you none of us were nice when talking about obnoxious clients-we gave them little pet names, too...
Well, it's Texas.
I’m surprised at the level of malice toward the patient in this thread.
She had a reasonable expectation to be treated with respect as a human being by someone who literally had her life in his hands.
I can’t believe that conservatives are that infatuated with the egotists in the OR, they put their pants on one leg at a time just like the rest of us, including the patient.
Luke 6:31 And as you wish others would do to you, do so to them.
I doubt this lady knows the details of Texas’s tort statutes.
If she can be believed, the medical personnel were rather rude. Perhaps they could be fined by their employer, like misbehaving professional athletes. The bigger issue is that (barring other information) her medical procedure was a success.
One of the dirty little secret of any service industry (which is what the modern age of medicine has completely turned into, it’s basically fastfood with degrees) is that for the most part customer facing employees HATE the customers. It might not start that way, but after a few years the jerks of the world have burned you out. You lose the ability to see them as human beings, they become parts, landmarks, and sometimes problems, problems that make sure you hate the next batch of parts. Depending on what the surgery was this crew could be performing a dozen of these a day, just cranking through the procedure like making BigMacs.
The fact that her procedure was successful is why I said her stupid suit threat looked frivolous-I would hope an attorney would tell her that. There is no excuse for a lack of customer service in any business, no matter what it is, and it should be dealt with by fining by an employer, or rate-raising by the insurance co.
Compared to 10 years ago, customer service totally sucks now-I guess that myself and the guys I work with are considered silly because we still try to provide the best that we can...
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