Patients Use Surveillance Equipment to Test if They Can Trust Doctors
(L-R): Prostate cancer patient Steve Cooper and surgery patient Ethel Easter
In two separate cases, two patients have decided to use surveillance equipment to secretly record their doctor’s visits and find out if their doctors can be trusted.
In the first case, 44-year-old Ethel Easter had scheduled a surgery for her hernia with a surgeon at the Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital in Houston. Easter reported that the surgeon seemed indifferent to her pain and scheduled her surgery 2 months later, which prompted her to sneak a spy recorder into the operating know so that her family could know what happened to her in case things went wrong.
It was found that the surgeon had recounted him and the patient’s dispute with him to the other doctors when she was informed that the surgery had to be done at a later date. Among the things the spy equipment had recorded included the surgeon and the anesthesiologist making fun of the patient’s belly button and talking about touching her inappropriately, the surgeon talking on his cellphone, and the surgeon allowing the administration of penicillin to her even if she had mentioned being allergic to it.
At the end of the spy listening device recording, Easter can be heard telling a doctor that she was “itchy”. She was brought back to the emergency room by her husband later on to be treated for allergic reaction that included her arms swelling up in rashes and having trouble breathing.
The second case involves 45-year-old prostate cancer patient Retired Sgt. 1st Class Steve Cooper visiting the Southeast Veterans Affair Clinic in Gilbert.
At his 30-minute secret recording, the spy equipment recorded notable moments in the conversation including a nurse calling the patient phone scheduling system “a nightmare” and admitting that even an employee like her can’t get a person on the phone line, the doctor admitting that “he’s not a fan of the VA” and complaining that his patient load does not give him enough time to be with his patients, the doctor saying that he is still trying to understand how the “Choice” program works as a new employee, and finally the doctor expressing a desire to check the patient’s heart and lungs but saying that he misplaced his stethoscope and ended up not using the stethoscope.
In both instances, we have discovered the importance of surveillance equipment like spy camera and spy listening device in finding out if doctors can be trusted. These spy recorders are also good for getting evidence in case we resort to filing lawsuits in the future. And to get your own spy devices, check out the spy pen camera and the smallest HD video recorder on sale currently at Supreme Deals.
