A New York construction worker is suing a hospital for forcibly performing a rectal exam on him after he was admitted for a cut face.
Brian Persaud, 38, visited the New York Presbyterian Hospital emergency room after he was hit in the head by a falling wooden beam.
After refusing a request for a rectal exam, Persaud claimed hospital staff held him down forcibly while he pleaded, "Please don't do that," Fox News reported.
He claimed he began flailing his arms, hitting one doctor until staff knocked him out with an injection — before completing the exam without his consent.
Persaud, who also received eight stitches to the cut above his eyebrow, reportedly woke up handcuffed to a bed with an oxygen tube down his throat.
Persaud later learned the rectal exam was a test to determine if he had suffered spinal damage.
Claiming he was "assaulted, battered and falsely imprisoned," Persaud is claiming unspecified damages.
A hospital request to dismiss the lawsuit was denied, and an assault charge against Persaud was dismissed.
The trial is scheduled to begin on March 31. Source
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
NY Hospital Forced Rectal Exam
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The doctor in this case, must be a quack. A rectal exam, on a sedated patient, is useless, when checking for spinal injury.The patient cannot respond properly. An E.R. Physician told me this.
I hope Persaud collects the full amount, of 26 million dollars. I am more than willing, to help him spend it.
That hospital is screwed!
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