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.

“After five minutes of talking to you in pre-op,” the anesthesiologist told the sedated patient, “I wanted to punch you in the face and man you up a little bit,” she was recorded saying.

When a medical assistant noted the man had a rash, the anesthesiologist warned her not to touch it, saying she might get “some syphilis on your arm or something,” then added, “It’s probably tuberculosis in the penis, so you’ll be all right.”

When the assistant noted that the man reported getting queasy when watching a needle placed in his arm, the anesthesiologist remarked on the recording, “Well, why are you looking then, retard?”

There was much more. So the man sued the two doctors and their practices for defamation and medical malpractice and, last week, after a three-day trial, a Fairfax County jury ordered the anesthesiologist and her practice to pay him $500,000.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/anesthesiologist-trashes-sedated-patient-jury-orders-her-to-pay-500000/2015/06/23/cae05c00-18f3-11e5-ab92-c75ae6ab94b5_story.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/local/audio-anesthesiologist-trashes-sedated-patient/2015/06/23/0eeac432-19f6-11e5-bed8-1093ee58dad0_video.html

I’d not heard of this yet in my travels.

I’m glad they’ve been roasted, although I’d very much like to see any of them barred from further medical practice.

I can’t even begin to imagine what the repercussions would be had the scenario been reversed, and two male medical practitioners were spouting such unfettered, transparent hatred.  There would most likely be jail time and sexual assault charges involved.

The $500,000 is very disappointing as well.  It’s not hard to read between the lines that the one juror who felt he wasn’t entitled to anything was a split tail who probably had her own finger up her ass.