I realize you’re being facetious, but I have to give you props for a comment equally qualified for both the Bad Legal Takes and Bad Medical Takes twitter accounts.
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Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the old joke “The operation was a success but the patients died”?
In any case, yes people have died during and as a result of plastic surgery. I cannot say if this was as a result of a screw up. Nevertheless, I don’t believe in multi-tasking. Either the court isn’t getting the surgeons full attention or the patient isn’t. It is about as appropriate as taking a zoom call while you’re on the toilet.
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Hadn’t heard that one.
No doubt. General anesthesia doesn’t have a lot of margin for error as I understand it.
Again, not a surgeon, but I can’t imagine any situation where a surgeon should agree to preform plastic surgery if there’s any significant chance to the patient dying during it, unless of course they’re participating in a much more dangerous surgery such as separating conjoined twins.
Oh, it was fantastically asinine. If I were the patient I’d be contacting my lawyer whether I could successfully sue him for malpractice or not. At the very least I’d want to make a formal complaint to his medical board. Even if appearing in court during my surgery didn’t increase my risk or prolong my surgery, it’s still incredibly unprofessional.
I was impressed how composed the flabbergasted judge remained. Green’s fortunate his little ego flex didn’t earn him contempt of court. Pissing of the judge is generally not the best legal strategy.
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Yes, that was my first thought. Unless the patient was in on it or a personal friend of the surgeon, then it was his lucky day. There is good legal money to be made here for malpractice.
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After waking up and seeing it on the news? or being informed by a third party? I don’t suspect the “oh they were sedated your honour they didn’t have clue till some loud mouth told them” argument holds up well in court.
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That’s not how psychological trauma works. Embarrassment, yes. Annoyance, definitely. But learning third-hand that a surgeon took a Zoom call for a few minutes while you were under? Nah. That’s too much of a stretch.
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really so your saying someone learning that a person in position of trust acted negligently while they were unconscious and under the physicians care should not feel traumatized?
do you think the patient consented for his surgeon to fight a parking ticket while he was unconscious and undergoing surgery? also it was “only a three minute phone call” due to the judge rescheduling the hearing…But who knows maybe the judge was the the one being negligent and just didn’t want to give the poor doctor a fair chance at fighting his parking ticket because he wanted to get back to his chambers early and check the price of his Bitcoin.
Precisely. Angry, betrayed, disappointed, all yes. But psychological trauma (your words) is accrued through lived experience not through third-hand reports.
Sleeping through a tornado damaging one’s house is a very different experience than seeing the storm tear through it.
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Non-doctor, non-lawyer spokesperson. Ask your doctor if kmoser’s advice is right for you.
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…exactly what he was doing, and all the risks. Agree it doesn’t look great, and expect if he had gone into a corner of the room with camera towards a wall the hearing could have proceeded without incident.
My point was never that he didn’t know what he was doing. It was that when you are in court, you don’t get to call time-out. He was nearby because he know he might need to call time-out.
You and I pull that crap, “Hey judge, just a moment, I’ve got to take care of some work stuff,” and it’s contempt of court. The judge was wise enough to know it might happen and took care of it before it became an issue.
If the doctor had cleared it with the judge ahead of time, it might have been cool. You don’t spring stuff on a judge, putting them on the spot, and expect to get your way.
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