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Woman Awakens From Surgery to Find Panty-Line Tattoo
Fox News ^ | 07.16.2008 | Fox News

Posted on 07/16/2008 12:26:54 PM PDT by Coffee200am

A New Jersey woman has sued her orthopedic surgeon after awakening from surgery to find a temporary tattoo below her panty line.

Elizabeth Mateo, of Camden County, N.J., filed her lawsuit Tuesday saying she found "a temporary tattoo of a red rose" below her panty line the morning after her surgery for a herniated disc, her attorney, Gregg A. Shivers, told the Philadelphia Inquirer.

"She was extremely emotionally upset by it," Shivers told the paper.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: healthcare; lawsuit; malpractice; surgery; tattoo
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Comment #141 Removed by Moderator

To: John Williams
It’s the fact that the doctor should not have been sticking tattoos — or anything else not related to the medical procedure — on this woman while she is in a unconscious state.

Why.

142 posted on 07/16/2008 6:06:07 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW ("Make yourself sheep, and the wolves will eat you" Benjamin Franklin)
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To: theDentist

. . . 1 patient never violated....

Somebody violated that poor old women when they hand filed her teeth and left her with that hacksaw grin!!


143 posted on 07/16/2008 6:09:50 PM PDT by ExSafecracker (Press 1 for english. . .2 for jibberish.)
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To: donna

I agree. I wonder if the bill will come in covered in stickers and glitter. What kind of doctor does that? LOL


144 posted on 07/16/2008 9:23:09 PM PDT by TNdandelion (It's Buh-rack Uh-bama for uh hope and uh change.)
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To: John Williams
I lost any sense of modesty with surgeons when I first had a colonoscopy and then hemorrhoid surgery. They've seen it all.
145 posted on 07/17/2008 10:10:26 AM PDT by colorado tanker (Number nine, number nine, number nine . . .)
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To: DoughtyOne

Thank you. I can’t believe people think this is no big deal. If that was me and I found a surprise temporary tattoo I’d be furious even if it was on the back of my hand. I say don’t try to make her sound crazy. She should be able to go to the doc and come out with no such funny stuff going on. What’s crazy is wanting to laugh off this breech of professional conduct because once we cross the line then what.


146 posted on 07/17/2008 10:21:54 AM PDT by A knight without armor
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To: A knight without armor

You’re welcome. Take care...


147 posted on 07/17/2008 10:30:19 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Annapolis, flight school, Congress, Senate, MIAs, Keating 5, Soros, Kerry... tried & found wanting!)
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To: thefactor

Ok, so I assume you’d be fine with finding a red rose tatoo on your butt after having surgery? I wouldn’t be. Makes you wonder what this creep was up to besides doing his job.


148 posted on 07/17/2008 10:37:06 AM PDT by Antoninus (Every second spent bashing McCain is time that could be spent helping Conservatives downticket.)
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To: Antoninus

i should have included a (/sarc) tag but i didnt think i’d need to. as i said in subsequent posts, this doc was wrong and seriously lacks integrity.


149 posted on 07/17/2008 10:42:13 AM PDT by thefactor (the innocent shall not suffer nor the guilty go free...)
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To: Beelzebubba

I have to agree with you. As a female, it’s uncomfortable being knocked out and at the mercy of others. I try to not think too much about it but to awaken and find his little get well note.. if my back didn’t hurt too much from surgery I’d have kicked his azz.

As an aside, I had some surgery and my surgeon told me that his ‘trainee’ who was assisting him with the surgery said I was a long, cool drink of water... I guess I was supposed to be flattered instead of my reaction of creeped out and wondering if they had been lifting the sheet..


150 posted on 07/17/2008 10:59:59 AM PDT by InsensitiveConservative
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To: Coffee200am

Camden County, N.J., woman is suing her orthopedic surgeon after he rubbed a temporary tattoo onto her body while she was unconscious. Elizabeth Mateo claims in her suit that she did not realize until the morning after the surgery that the surgeon, Steven Kirshner, had left a temporary tattoo of a rose on her abdomen while she was under anesthesia, the Philadelphia Enquirer reported Wednesday.

“She was extremely emotionally upset by it,” said attorney Gregg Shivers, who filed the suit on Mateo’s behalf in Camden County Superior Court. The suit seeks punitive and compensatory damages from Kirshner. The doctor admitted to placing the tattoo on Mateo but he denied any ill intent, the newspaper reported. He said he often rubs temporary tattoos on patients as a means of helping to raise their spirits after a stressful operation.

“What’s offensive about this complaint is that it suggests something he did was intended to be prurient, and nothing could be further from the truth,” said Kirshner’s lawyer, Robert Agre. “It was intended just to make the patient feel better.”


151 posted on 07/17/2008 1:51:26 PM PDT by Coleus (Abortion and Physician-assisted Murder (aka-Euthanasia), Don't Democrats just kill ya?)
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To: Fundamentally Fair
Yeah, I know. The doctor is a good friend of my son's.

You're calling me a liar and I'm calling you a pinhead. If I'm wrong, prove it. You can't, no matter how much you check Snopes, because it happened.

152 posted on 07/19/2008 2:06:12 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: DJ MacWoW
The article said “ the doctor has left washable marks on patients before to improve their spirits as they heal”.

He should have just left her some stickers on her bedside table.


153 posted on 07/19/2008 2:26:34 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: Bernard Marx
If I'm wrong, prove it.

You know I can't prove a negative. But you could prove it is true...if it is.

154 posted on 07/19/2008 5:48:22 PM PDT by Fundamentally Fair (If given a choice between a POW and a POS, I'll take the POW.)
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To: Fundamentally Fair

Not being able to prove a negative is a logical fallacy. I read the stories “in the original” day after day in the San Luis Obispo Tribune. Call ‘em up, pay the fees, and have them dig through their morgue. The stories are there and you can pay to get them. I don’t have to prove anything at all to an arrogant smart-ass like you.


155 posted on 07/19/2008 10:32:47 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: Bernard Marx
>i>Not being able to prove a negative is a logical fallacy.

Yet you asked me to do it.

156 posted on 07/20/2008 5:52:04 AM PDT by Fundamentally Fair (If given a choice between a POW and a POS, I'll take the POW.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

157 posted on 07/20/2008 5:59:05 AM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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