http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/bizarre/doctor-branded-womans-uterus-after-surgery
Another fine example for the lack of common sense by the overly educated, but then what else can you expect when $800,000. that the taxpayer provides is spent on a dick washing study in Africa rather than on teaching the practice of professional ethics.
After performing a hysterectomy last year, a California gynecologist used a cauterizing tool to brand his patient’s name on her removed uterus, an unorthodox move that the doctor calls a “friendly gesture,” but which the woman terms “despicable conduct” in a medical negligence lawsuit.
In a Superior Court lawsuit filed earlier this month, Ingrid Paulicivic, a 47-year-old hairdresser, charges that Dr. Red Alinsod used an “electrocautery device to carve and burn” the word “Ingrid” on her uterus, which was removed during a June 2009 operation at his Orange County office.
Paulicivic alleges that the branding was done for “no medically necessary purpose or reason” and that she somehow suffered burns on her legs while the uterus was being marked, according to her complaint.
He claimed that he “felt comfortable putting her name on the uterus” since Paulicivic, pictured above, was a “good friend.”
Though Alinsod referred to the branding as a “gesture of friendship,” Mullins said that his client “had never met him prior to the first consult,” adding that she was actually an acquaintance of a receptionist who works in the doctor’s Laguna Beach office.
