Doc750
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Could you imagine being in your last year of surgical residency and being thrown out of the program for something stupid like this.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22327081/?GT1=10645
PHOENIX - A surgeon faces a disciplinary hearing for snapping a photo of a patient’s tattooed genitals during an operation and showing it around to other doctors.
Mayo Clinic Hospital administrators said Dr. Adam Hansen, chief resident of general surgery, admitted taking the photo with his cell phone on Dec. 11. The tattoo on strip club owner Sean Dubowik’s penis reads: “Hot Rod.”
Dubowik, who had undergone a gallbladder operation, said he learned of the photo Monday when the Mayo Clinic called.
“I got a strange call after my surgery from a doctor who said there was a problem. He said Hansen was on the phone and would explain,” he said.
Dubowik, 27, said Hansen told him he took the picture while inserting a catheter into his penis. A member of the surgical staff made an anonymous call about the photo to The Arizona Republic on Monday.
“He told me he didn’t want me to read about it in the newspaper first,” Dubowik said.
Hansen wasn’t available for comment Tuesday and has been placed on administrative leave. He could face a range of punishment from probation to dismissal.
“Patient privacy is a serious matter, and photographing someone in this manner without a good reason is something we will investigate down to the last detail,” said Dr. Joseph Sirven, education director for Mayo Clinic Arizona, the hospital’s parent organization based in Scottsdale.
Dubowik said he got the tattoo on a bet and that “it was the most horrible thing I ever went though in my life.”
He said he planned to contact an attorney.
“The longer I sit here the angrier I get,” he said.
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| dermdoc57
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This is what happens when you play with patient privacy.This also goes on to explain the enemies we face.The worst enemy we can face is our own for we never suspect this.Medical profession's biggest enemy is its own members.In this instance the surgery team member who reported the matter had the moral obligation to tell the doctor about his wrongdoing.He could have talked to the surgery chief.This way he would have saved a scandal and achieved his purpose which I am sure is to protect patient autonomy and privacy.But then this is what medical profession is about.We pride in back-stabbing.
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| arlete
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I think the purpose was to damage the surgeon's carreer, not benefit the patient. Doctors push each others' wrong buttons all the time and generally have a lot of resentment among them (as well with all the other health workers). But the surgeon was completely wrong! How did he think he could do such a thing an get away with it?
 Totally unethical...
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| bioguy
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This should come up as a doctor-patient question in the USMLE 
You (a surgeon) see your patient on the op table with a tattoo on his penis, what do you do?
A. Take a snap on your cell phone and show to your colleagues
B. Take a snap on your cell phone and show to your colleagues
C. Take a snap on your cell phone and show to your colleagues
D. Take a snap on your cell phone and show to your colleagues
E. Take a snap on your cell phone and show to your colleagues
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| P4a99
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Nice one bioguy!
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