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Ex-con wins $18,607 in rectal thermometer lawsuit
Toronto Sun ^ | FEBRUARY 11, 2014 | QMI AGENCY

Posted on 02/12/2014 6:09:44 PM PST by rickmichaels

MONTREAL — A judge has ordered a Montreal hospital to pay an ex-con $18,607 after his temperature was taken with a rectal thermometer while he was handcuffed to a bed.

The judgment, however, fell far short of the $200,000 John Beshara had sought after claiming he'd been "violated."

In September 2006, Beshara was serving time in the north-end Bordeaux jail for robbery.

He ingested what he thought was methadone, part of a treatment for heroin addiction, court documents say.

In fact he had mistakenly swallowed another inmate's meds, which landed him in hospital.

On the second night, as the inmate lay cuffed to his bed, a male nurse entered and Beshara became aggressive, the court ruling says.

Correctional officers held Beshara down and the nurse took his temperature.

The judge ruled Beshara hadn't been sexually assaulted, but he still deserved compensation because he was probed without his consent.



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1 posted on 02/12/2014 6:09:44 PM PST by rickmichaels
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To: rickmichaels

And it’s all downhill from here for this superannuated franco-geezer.


2 posted on 02/12/2014 6:14:40 PM PST by billorites (nichtarbeit macht frei)
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To: rickmichaels

What is the difference between an oral and rectal thermometer ?

TASTE


3 posted on 02/12/2014 6:15:39 PM PST by al baby (Hi MomÂ… I was refereeing to Obama)
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To: rickmichaels

Who do the victims of these scuzzball criminals get to sue to regain their property, their health and dignity, or, God forbid, their lives and the lives of their loved ones?


4 posted on 02/12/2014 6:15:52 PM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: rickmichaels

Puss


5 posted on 02/12/2014 6:18:35 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: al baby

I remember an old joke from Mad Magazine. When the nurse is taking your temperature, take the thermometer out of your mouth, look at it, and ask her what rectal means.

These days they just point the temperature taking doodad in my ear. It’s no fun anymore.


6 posted on 02/12/2014 6:24:21 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: al baby

i was so busy with tongue pressure taste didnt compute


7 posted on 02/12/2014 6:26:29 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: martin_fierro

Does a violated tuchus qualify as a mangled genital? Or maybe it’s only IndStrHumor...


8 posted on 02/12/2014 6:36:12 PM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: rickmichaels

If he swallowed another inmate’s medication, that’s not his mistake. That’s a major nursing mistake or procedural mistake.

Either the nurse handed him the wrong medication, or he managed to get the medication from another inmate.

Bad no-nos.

Why on earth would a prison have a rectal thermometer in stock? One time use or drop it in bleach? If the prisoner won’t take a thermometer in his mouth, there are skin contact thermometers.


9 posted on 02/12/2014 7:14:24 PM PST by heartwood
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10 posted on 02/12/2014 7:34:27 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: al baby

In prison, the difference between rectal and oral just depends on who your cellmate is.


11 posted on 02/12/2014 9:53:43 PM PST by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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