Dr. brands uterus during hysterectomy

[Filly]

Were they saving it for a transplant? It was trash. I doubt she actually had burns. If sedated, how did she even know he marked it?

There's never actually been a successful uterine transplant. I think there's been one and that didn't last long.

According to the article she only knew about it because she requested the photographs of her surgery. Now, I found that odd, but reading about this Doctor he actually has video and such on his website of surgeries. The woman complained at her follow-up and the Doctor proceeded to look at the pictures.

Ohhhhhhhhh if you got burned by one of those high tech tools you'd know it. However, I'd think you'd know it soon after all the drugs wore off as opposed to what? Six weeks later?

My question is was this a vaginal hysterectomy or did he perform a laparotomy?

In all honesty I'd be more mad he burned my cooch than him branding anything. Couldn't he have thought on his feet and said "Oh we do that so when we send it to the lab they know who it belongs to?"

The woman has a friend that works for the Doctor so one would wonder if she clued her into other brandings? In all honesty he could have kept mine on a shelf. I was glad to have it removed. Too many years of pain.

 

[Linda7NJ]

I think the branding is concerning and strange, but like the previous poster I find it hard to believe she was injured in any way. IMO If you are injured, you know it...it doesn't take 6 weeks and a set of photos.

I don't think writing her name on a removed organ is cause for the doctor to lose his medical licence. Frankly, if it were mine, I couldn't care less what happened to it, Lady GaGa could cut it in half and make earrings out of it !

 

[believe09]

Wow-here is my issue. Given this bizarre behavior, I would be wondering if I actually needed a hysterectomy to begin with. Personally.

He admitted to branding it. He admitted there was no protocol for branding tissue of this kind. It is a twisted thing to do, whatever the motivation. Really Really weird. At the minimum, it is insensitve to the patient. At the maximum it is CREEPY.

 

[Belinda]

I think it is an extremely weird thing to do. However, if it was me, I wouldn't personally care if he played hockey with it.

 

[SunnieRN]

He injured her and she asked for pictures of the surgery which she knew he had taken. He hesitated but DH showed him how to copy from his camera. When they got home and reviewed them they were HORRIFIED.

IIRC he burned her vagina during the surgery with the instrument.

The last time I checked he was still practicing which is very very concerning to me.

Seriously, doctors are strange sometimes, surgeons, more so. Let's look at this case.

She had her uterus removed, asked for pictures, which the doctor gave her. After seeing the pictures she complained about being burned?

That is interesting, as you, or at least I, would have thought the nurses and the patient would have noticed burns while she was in recovery and still in the hospital.

Do I think the doc should have 'branded' the uterus? Ah, no, kinda weird and freaky. How was the patient injured by this if the tissue had already been removed?

 

[believe09]

Seriously, doctors are strange sometimes, surgeons, more so. Let's look at this case.

She had her uterus removed, asked for pictures, which the doctor gave her. After seeing the pictures she complained about being burned?

That is interesting, as you, or at least I, would have thought the nurses and the patient would have noticed burns while she was in recovery and still in the hospital.

Do I think the doc should have 'branded' the uterus? Ah, no, kinda weird and freaky. How was the patient injured by this if the tissue had already been removed?

Actually, she was going in for her post op, felt that she had been injured by the procedure because she had burns in her vagina. She and her husband went in for the visit, asked for pictures, Dr hesitated, hubby talked him through his excuses, they went home and saw them.

Her name on her uterus.

You guys have a different threshold from me, which is not a bad thing. I think it is mutilation, regardless of the stage of the tissue. This would be akin to branding a stillbirth or having sex with a corpse-yes, the tissue is dead, but WTH?

 

[hoppyfrog]

It's disrespectful.

What if the surgeon had amputated a leg or arm and then gave it a bunch of tattoos? Then put it in funny poses and took pics of it?

I would find that disrespectful and unecessary too, just like this is.

People who have a body part removed often grieve that loss, whether it's a limb or a uterus. To have the doctor inflict harm or damage on that body part is disrespectful to the patient.

 

[cuppy199]

Werid yes but I dont believe the women should get anything for it. Fine the doctor and some sort of discipline sure but the man shouldn't lose his licence IMO.

 

[drip~drop]

Funny but I've never asked for pictures of any of my surgeries. I don't even know if there were any.
Once the part is out, it's thrown out in haz-mat anyways.
weird.

 

[Belinda]

I was actually given a video of my lap appendectomy. I never watched it, but several others did. They all came out and said "Looks just like chicken!" LOL

 

[Gozgals]

I was actually given a video of my lap appendectomy. I never watched it, but several others did. They all came out and said "Looks just like chicken!" LOL

I was given a copy of my endo surgery. It was rare they said as I had endo on my nerve endings. Many at the Chiropractic College near my home wanted to view it. (FUNNY)...It was shown there at the College and also shown around town. HEHE...

They said what little fat I had looked like yoke.

Wonder if popcorn was had by all?

 

[Noway]

Apparently he didn't know her that well. (Not sure how well you have to know someone to make this seem okay.)

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.

So ... this doctor thought branding her uterus was a gesture of friendship?

Ick.

 

[Melanie]

Okay, WHO has a hysterectomy in a doctors office? Speaking from experience, and a 10 hour surgery, this should only be done in a hospital. The doctor sounds like a loon.

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

Though Alinsod referred to the branding as a “gesture of friendship,”

HELLO - has the medical field gone mad?

Heck, I've never thought to ask for post surgical images -- maybe I should! Fortunately, the dr. who performed the hys also delivered my son and saved my life. This Dr. is giving a really bad rep for the good docs out there.

MOO

Mel

 

[Belinda]

While I think what the doctor did is totally bizarre and he should be punished for his unprofessional behavior, I feel the lawsuit is just a money grab. I just don't see where this woman suffered any actual harm and certainly not her husband.

 

[Gozgals]

Maybe she doesn't deserve any $$, and maybe she gave him permission, but I think it is still rather sick. I don't want this Dr. or any Dr. taking a trophy of my parts. Not gonna do it...And to think, a uterus of all things. Ikk.

Yes, it sounds like the medical field has gone bonkers...

 

[believe09]

I was given a copy of my endo surgery. It was rare they said as I had endo on my nerve endings. Many at the Chiropractic College near my home wanted to view it. (FUNNY)...It was shown there at the College and also shown around town. HEHE...

They said what little fat I had looked like yoke.

Wonder if popcorn was had by all?

TMI from believe09 and slightly o/t- I piloted a certain surgery for my DR so that they could petition the BOH that it was OK to do in a DR's office vs an OR. And far less expensive. The procedure had only been done on 40 women across the USA at that point and only in the OR. I have a very, very high tolerance for discomfort so opted to go with only local anesthesia-naturally the procedure was filmed as documentation for medical boards, board of health etc...

The funniest part was that everyone kept forgetting I was awake, so I got some seriously good gossip regarding hospital administration and the staff. The second part was when it was done (took about 45 minutes) one of the attendings who had scrubbed in said I have the most incredibly beautiful (insert a body part here, non sexual) he had ever seen.

I lived on that compliment for months, as you do not hear something like that everyday.

 

[hoppyfrog]

TMI from believe09 and slightly o/t- I piloted a certain surgery for my DR so that they could petition the BOH that it was OK to do in a DR's office vs an OR. And far less expensive. The procedure had only been done on 40 women across the USA at that point and only in the OR. I have a very, very high tolerance for discomfort so opted to go with only local anesthesia-naturally the procedure was filmed as documentation for medical boards, board of health etc...

The funniest part was that everyone kept forgetting I was awake, so I got some seriously good gossip regarding hospital administration and the staff. The second part was when it was done (took about 45 minutes) one of the attendings who had scrubbed in said I have the most incredibly beautiful (insert a body part here, non sexual) he had ever seen.

I lived on that compliment for months, as you do not hear something like that everyday.

:floorlaugh::floorlaugh::floorlaugh::floorlaugh:

If it had been me, when the whole thing was over, I would have said, "Now. Let me make sure I have this right: I have the most beautiful XYZ you've ever seen, and <insert all the hospital gossip here>. Did I get that right?"

I would just want to see their priceless reaction.

 

[SunnieRN]

First off, where in heck did they do a hysterectomty in a doctors office? Was it a surgical office, like some of the cosmetic surgeons have? Hysterectomies, even with the less invasive DaVinci procedures are still surgeries and can have life threatening consequences. There is also a chance that other medical complications can occur.

If the uterus was REMOVED and then it was branded. HOW was she internally burned foam this? Remember, I was an OR manager in a rural area, I was in every case done. I can NOT understand how a removed uterus can cause internal burns, by branding the removed tissue.

Again, do I think this was right, good, funny, kosher?? Of course not. But, I still can not understand how the patient got the injury. Something isn't adding up.

Should the doctor be reprimanded, of course! Should the woman get financially rewarded? Well, not in my honest opinion. But that is IMO only.

 

[drip~drop]

I was actually given a video of my lap appendectomy. I never watched it, but several others did. They all came out and said "Looks just like chicken!" LOL

I wouldn't want to watch my own surgery. I don't have such a problem with watching surgery per say but not my own. No thanks.

 

[Filly]

Man, now I'm wondering if my ovary is out there somewhere with my initials on it?

This is a serious question. Is a person allowed to keep their removed organs? Like when they pull your tooth? I'd have liked to kept a few parts I owned at one time.