Woman Awakens From Surgery to Find Panty-Line Tattoo

Fox News ^ | 07.16.2008 | Fox News

[DJ MacWoW]

If you’d read the article you’d know that he wouldn’t have done that. The article said “ the doctor has left washable marks on patients before to improve their spirits as they heal”. Don’t try to make this something that it’s not.

[theDentist]

"... and when I woke up my shirt was untucked."

[jellybean]

[gridlock]

Did you hear what President Bush said when he was told that four Brazilian soldiers with the MNF were killed in Afghanistan?

He said “That’s terrible! A brazillion is more than a million, right?”

[donna]

That is so creepy.

[DakotaGator]

For a physician/surgeon to do something to a patient’s body which is not medically required is just plain wrong.

For the patient to sue over this drawing is just plain stupid.

A good butt-chewing by the medical board is appropriate.

[Bernard Marx]

A washable "tattoo?" Poor baby. She should talk to this woman. It really happened, I lived there at the time.

In 1988 a jury in San Luis Obispo, Calif., awarded $6 million damages to a woman whose jealous ex-husband, a gynecologist, sewed her vagina shut while she was undergoing a hysterectomy performed by another doctor (one of his buddies).

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

I think it’s creepy. He’s got no business doing anything to her that isn’t a necessary element of the surgery.

[HamiltonJay]

Why not, some other woman sued because the doctor burned something like his alma mata letters into her uterus or something in the surgery to remove it.

The surgery requires you mark the organ so you know your orientation etc... so he apparently had taken to making his college’s letters or something. She found out and sued him for it. Even though there was nothing unethical, immorral or dangerous about it.

I never did hear how that case turned out, but I bet that woman got some sort of payout.. probably from the guys insurnace, never letting it go to trial.

[I see my hands]

Lots of posts disparaging the woman as overreactive.

Who here upon awakening at an Embassy Suites hotel and finding the manager did something similar while you were asleep would leave a tip for the chamber maid and just drive off?

I know, it's 100% different and a stupid comparison and besides, I'm stupid.

[Orange1998]

you sure are crusty. It was a joke.

[WayneS]

Good one!!!

[TornadoAlley3]

“to make her feel better”....give me a few more extra refills on my pains meds doc, then I will feel better.

[donna]

A good butt-chewing by the medical board is appropriate.

Like that would happen. Half the medical board is posting on this thread, LOL.

[Ben Reyes]

Modern-day branding.

[tx_eggman]

That’s terrible! A brazillion is more than a million, right?

Welcome to 2006

[Gondring]

Makes you wonder what else doctors do to you when you’re out, doesn’t it?

I have a physician friend who was not getting surgery that would have been very beneficial, and I couldn't understand why she put it off.

When I asked, she told me, "Remember, I went to med school...I know what goes on..."

[gridlock]

I would bet you dollars to donuts this woman’s husband is a lawyer, or she’s a lawyer herself.

[DJ MacWoW]

Frank Farley, a psychologist at Temple University who was read a summary of the lawsuit, speculated about why a surgeon who had performed an operation on the back would leave a red rose on his patient's belly.

Actually they sometimes use the front instead of the back. So the Psychologist was a little clueless.

WHY GO THROUGH MY FRONT (ANTERIOR APPROACH) TO GET TO MY BACK?

[1Old Pro]

That is so creepy.

Yep, WAY out of line, she will win her lawsuit as this is not acceptable behavior from a medical professional. Probably settle for $100,000