Cenk Uygur
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Surgeons Mock A Sedated Patient — And It’s All Recorded [AUDIO]
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June 26, 2015
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10:45Now PlayingA surgical team in Virginia, has to answer some tough questions after a recorded has surfaced of them mocking a patient under sedation. The patient recorded the procedure to make sure he didn’t miss any instructions from the doctor. Now he is suing for defamation. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
"Sitting in his surgical gown inside a large medical suite in Reston, a Vienna man prepared for his colonoscopy by pressing record on his smartphone, to capture the instructions his doctor would give him after the procedure.
But as soon as he pressed play on his way home, he was shocked out of his anesthesia-induced stupor: He found that he had recorded the entire examination, and that the surgical team had mocked and insulted him as soon as he drifted off to sleep.
And in addition to their vicious commentary, the doctors discussed avoiding the man after the colonoscopy, instructing an assistant to lie to him, and then placed a false diagnosis on his chart."
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