As I was browsing the news at CNN I saw a link to a page titled something along the lines of nurse takes photo of patient with sex toy. Um, weird. It turns out that two nurses in Wisconsin took pictures of a patients X-ray, he had some sort of sexual device lodged in his rectum. First of all really? Why would you ever think it appropriate to take a photo of a patient who obviously is in an embarrassing predicament? Then here is the real good part of the story...where does the nurse post the pictures? Facebook. She of course is denying the fact that she took pictures and posted them online.
So although I found this weird, it seemed familiar. Ok, well not that kind of familiar but I just recently saw an episode of Nip/Tuck where the surgeon and anaesthesiologist took a picture of a patient on their camera phone. Needless to say he found out that a certain part of his male anatomy was on film and was paid a hefty amount to refrain from suing. Now of course it is a television show but it does make a good point that consequences are severe.
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She is probably not only going to be sued but also lose her nursing license (or whatever they get). So much for doctor/patient confidentiality.
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