Litigious just got a new name: Brian Persaud.
A construction worker claimed in a lawsuit that when he went to a hospital after being hit on the forehead by a falling wooden beam, emergency room staffers forcibly gave him a rectal examination.
Brian Persaud, 38, says in court papers that after he denied a request by New York-Presbyterian Hospital emergency room employees to examine his rectum, he was “assaulted, battered and falsely imprisoned.”
His lawyer, Gerrard M. Marrone, said he and Persaud later learned the exam was one way of determining whether he had suffered spinal damage in the accident.
Yet they have not dropped the suit.
Persaud objected so much to the exam that doctors were forced to drug him and then handcuff him to a bed. Issues much?
Jack Jett
Persaud objected so much to the exam that doctors were forced to drug him and then handcuff him to a bed. Issues much?
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Becca
The story is a bit more involved than described here, like how Mr. Persaud was arrested. The Hospital may have gone too far. Can you force medical procedures on someone?
Read more details here…
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/16/forced-rectal-exam-stirs-ethics-questions/
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WWH
Jack Jett should find Mr. Persaud and spit fuck him.
DavidDust
He says “forced rectal exam” – I say “making love”…
Tintin Malfoy
Mr. Persaud is one kinky bitch.
spunkbox
OMG, I totally founf footage of that rectal exam:
http://spunkbox.blogspot.com/2007/11/lets-play-doctor.html
Pabasa
It seems to me like a lose-lose situation for the hospital.
Hospital staff are not permitted to even touch a patient unless he or she has given verbal or non-verbal permission or he or she is unable to make the decision, or if it is an emergency case. In the above case he clearly did not give permission to give him a rectal exam. Staff in the wrong here.
On the other hand, if he really *did* have a spinal injury, and the hospital did not do the rectal exam to find the injury, he could have sued for negligence instead.
Then again, refusing a rectal exam for your own good. he probably does have issues.
FormerFirstResponder
The guy was hit on the head. The medical staff could have reasonably assumed that his stubborness was a result of concussion, and that he was not capable of providing informed consent. In such cases implied consent is given to the medical personel.
FormerFirstResponder
Pabsa said:
“Hospital staff are not permitted to even touch a patient unless he or she has given verbal or non-verbal permission or he or she is unable to make the decision, or if it is an emergency case. In the above case he clearly did not give permission to give him a rectal exam. Staff in the wrong here.”
You are wrong, in the case where it is reasonable to believe that patient is an altered state (such as this case where he was hit over the head) the medical staff can determine that he is (temporarily) capable of making his own decisions.
dvlaries
Sounds to me like the hospital could have done a much better job of explaining why it was necessary and just didn’t bother. Handcuffs and drugging? This was assault. Those making light of it, I can tell you, when you’re the only one in the room naked, you know you’re not at any fucking party. I hope Persaud gets a bundle – he would if I were on that jury.
FormerFirstResponder
No. 11 dvlaries says:
” I hope Persaud gets a bundle – he would if I were on that jury.”
As long as the hospital can show that he was not capable of making an informed decision due to altered mental state he’ll get nothing.
Meeg
Some things can only happen in lawsuit land, if you know what I mean.
Jack E. Jett
So are you telling me that I can go to a New York Hospital, have a safe quick fuck, get some drugs and later win a major lawsuit???????
I am sooooo there!
hells kitchen guy
†I hope Persaud gets a bundle – he would if I were on that jury.â€
Exactly why health care in this country is so ridiculously expensive. The guy wasn’t physically hurt in any way, was he? Whatever happned, “Gee, sorry,” and done with it.
No, has to have a lawsuit and “a bundle” of money.
alan brickman
had him back his dress …and send him home…..
matt123
strange for this. “he went to a hospital after being hit on the forehead by a falling wooden beam, emergency room staffers forcibly gave him a rectal examination.”
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Ryan
Ha…this was a Family Guy episode…well sort of. Peter sues his doctor for sexually abusing him during a prostate exam.