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Doctor suspended. For what? Sexting.

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SirStev0

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He reportedly exchanged 45 texts “with sexual innuendo” in less than an hour and a half.
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Amateur. Could do that in 30 mins top.


http://m.washingtonpost.com/news/mo...for-texting-and-sexting-during-his-surgeries/

Hate to see the precedence this will set. I imagine he was just a shitty doc, and they were looking for a way to get rid of him. If they start nanny'ing what docs do every second of every day, the medicine field is going to get epically more shitty, and we are going to continue to hemorrhage doctors.. especially American trained doctors.

And FYI, most Anesthesia Doc's don't do jack shit during surgeries.. it is why they have so much money, they have all that time to watch the nasdaq and bet the stock ponies.

My favorite Uro/Anes Joke.
If you walk into an OR, how can you tell the difference between the Anesthesiologist and the Urologist?
The Urologist is playing with someone-else's dick.


EDIT: As nicely pointed out below, I missed that he also violated federal HIPPA laws and was illegally writing prescriptions. The guy is probably a scumbag, no argument here. With that said, the sensational journalism was about the sexting.
 
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That's not sexting... Sexting requires pics.

If that's sexting, then I'm sexting all the time with a gay friend at work.
 
I sent this article to some buddies and told them we might have to calm it down for a while.. because:
"Yes because the terrible, terrible things we say to each other would never be misconstrued in a court of law by a scumbag lawyer."
 
He is also accused of looking at private medical records for his own sexual gratification, having sexual rendezvous at work and issuing at least 29 unauthorized prescriptions.
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Yeah, because that's just a bonus. 😕
 
Hate to see the precedence this will set.

Good, the shithead did it while in surgery. Hope he is banned for life.
 
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OutHouse said:
Hate to see the precedence this will set.

Good, the shithead did it while in surgery. Hope he is banned for life.
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Again, he is an anesthesiologist. During a surgery, they spend about 10 minutes putting you to sleep, they twiddle their thumbs for the rest of the case while a nurse watches your numbers and hangs bags, and spend 15 minutes waking you up.

There is a good 45 m to ?hours they don't even look at the patient. Unless it is a critical case (open heart, major vascular surgery, etc.), they usually don't even sit in the room.
 
tThis guy sounds like an outright scumbag.. no argument here. My point is that unless I am critically managing or needed emergently, you don't get to know fuck all what I do.


Some times (For Shame), in between going into hear about the next patient's whiny bullshit, I check sport's score's on ESPN. Sometimes, I respond to angry texts from my wife. Sometimes (Let's be honest, rarely) I respond to sexy texts from my wife.


The point is.. The thought police don't get to ruin this country. The HIPPA violations, the work violations, etc. are all great reasons to suspend someone.

Him wasting time texting and the content of those texts as long as legal... should have no bearing on his job.

I would rather have a competent doctor who was flirting up nurses and housewives all day long, then a Moral Bible-thumper who couldn't throw a stitch or recognize measles if his life depended on it.
 
Uhh,

Wow way to have a badly construed article and OP. He wasn't suspended for sexting, he was suspended for this.

He is also accused of looking at private medical records for his own sexual gratification, having sexual rendezvous at work and issuing at least 29 unauthorized prescriptions.
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You don't do that as a doc unless you want to get suspended/fired.
 
HumblePie said:
Uhh,

Wow way to have a badly construed article and OP. He wasn't suspended for sexting, he was suspended for this.



You don't do that as a doc unless you want to get suspended/fired.
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Yeah, I missed that in the first read.
That is likely the real reason. The question is, why did the Medical Board include the text issue at all?

The dude is scum, agreed. He broke laws related to patient privacy and narcotic prescriptions. The texts are just an after thought.. yet the entire article is based on it.
 
Any kind of questionable sexual activity at work is fair game to be brought up when we're talking about fapping to private medical records imo. Blame the article for sensationalizing the story.
 
No ones going to read an article that says, "Doctor suspended for looking at patient records."

On another point, depending on the quality of your hospital, anesthesiologists will do all the cases on their own from start to finish. Doesnt mean they're actively working the whole time, but theyre in the room keeping an eye on things.
 
Slew Foot said:
No ones going to read an article that says, "Doctor suspended for looking at patient records."

On another point, depending on the quality of your hospital, anesthesiologists will do all the cases on their own from start to finish. Doesnt mean they're actively working the whole time, but theyre in the room keeping an eye on things.
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I would argue that depending on the quality of your hospital, an anes won't be keeping an eye on you the whole time. It is a complete waste of resources to keep a 8+ Post Grad educated person in the room to watch your colonoscopy.
 
SirStev0 said:
I would argue that depending on the quality of your hospital, an anes won't be keeping an eye on you the whole time. It is a complete waste of resources to keep a 8+ Post Grad educated person in the room to watch your colonoscopy.
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Just finished a month of pretty intense anesthesia at a huge teaching hospital in SD. I was in there with the doc from start to finish on every single case. We hung all the bags, logged vitals, gave meds, etc.

Shrug.
 
SirStev0 said:
I would argue that depending on the quality of your hospital, an anes won't be keeping an eye on you the whole time. It is a complete waste of resources to keep a 8+ Post Grad educated person in the room to watch your colonoscopy.
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Whats better quality colonoscopy, some fat nurse who took an online class giving out 0.5 mg of versed at a time (but only if the endoscopist says so), or a board certified physician drifting the patient off to sleep with propofol?
 
PhoKingGuy said:
Just finished a month of pretty intense anesthesia at a huge teaching hospital in SD. I was in there with the doc from start to finish on every single case. We hung all the bags, logged vitals, gave meds, etc.

Shrug.
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No offense, but the day I start logging vitals, is the day I quit medicine. Usually the CRNA's don't even do that.. they make their students.

Again, maybe you were doing big involved cases that involve carefully calibrated vitals. As a Surgeon, 97% of the time I just want the patient out when they need to be and awake before I die a slow painful death waiting for turn around.
 
Slew Foot said:
Whats better quality colonoscopy, some fat nurse who took an online class giving out 0.5 mg of versed at a time (but only if the endoscopist says so), or a board certified physician drifting the patient off to sleep with propofol?
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I know different states have different laws and philosophies... for instance most of California CRNA's arent allowed to do jack shit and the Anes Docs do everything.
Here the CRNA's run the show. They do have a "master's degree" level of nurse training. BS in nursing with 2-4 years of CRNA school.

Seems logistically better to me.. Two Anes docs and 6 CRNA's can do the work of 6 Anes docs. 400k x2 + 150k x6 versus 400k x6

Did some Anes in Med School and was bored out of my mind. Had both styles.. Sat bedside for hearts for 6 hours and did a bunch of Induce/Extub runs. Basically learned it is boring stuff. Learned a fuck load about investing and golf though.
 
CRNAs in CA are allowed the full spectrum of anesthesia practice. No one uses them outside of the central valley and the VA system because they suck compared to a real doctor. The surgeons dont want to deal with them, the patients would rather have a real doctor, the hospital admins dont want to deal with the nursing union going on strike every Christmas, and studies show that even when the lower salary is factored in, CRNAs tend to end up costing more then MDs. Even Kaiser, which is run by the greediest money grubbing whores, is moving away from CRNAs.
 
SirStev0 said:
No offense, but the day I start logging vitals, is the day I quit medicine. Usually the CRNA's don't even do that.. they make their students.

Again, maybe you were doing big involved cases that involve carefully calibrated vitals. As a Surgeon, 97% of the time I just want the patient out when they need to be and awake before I die a slow painful death waiting for turn around.
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TBH as a med student the only people that ever give me ass on rounds are midlevel nurses, so not incredibly surprised that a CRNA would be "too good" to keep a vitals sheet (I've been through at lease 4-5 hospitals in the OR now and I dont think i've seen an anesthesiologist not have a vitals sheet.

And no most of these were lap choles, appys, ex laps, hernias, etc. CA hardly as any CRNAs and from what my friends back in FL say (where my med school is) the CRNAs don't teach you anything other than "that's what you do because thats what I was taught"

FWIW I'm going into either IM or Gen Surg to vascular surg. I really should figure that out soon. Haha.
 
I'm on the path to becoming a CRNA. It's enlightening to read about the experiences you guys have. I may be among some of the first who are required to get the doctorate of nursing, since I've read that programs are moving away from the master's.
 
Slew Foot said:
CRNAs in CA are allowed the full spectrum of anesthesia practice.
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Really, I did not know that. We don't use them at our hospital.

So they can do epidurals and us nerve blocks? Are they competent when shit hits the fan? Do an emergency fiber optic guided intubation? Emergency cricothyrotomy?

I don't ever see anest except when they are needed because the er doctor wasn't able intubate on codes.
 
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