Anesthesiologist suspended for performing rectal exam

[AKMD_1984]

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well if the anesthesiologist had immediately recognized that he made a mistake/ judgment error, come clean and talked to the patient and be sincere - he would have not been suspended.
i suspect history of inappropriate behavior and/or unprofessionalism in this case, and this incident was used to suspend him.

 

[PieOHmy]

An anesthesiologist should never be doing a rectal. A colorectal surgeon should never be doing an awake intubation. We both need to keep our respective skills up to snuff, though, and so if another colleague is called in to see something interesting and it’s aligned within the specialty then it’s fine.

When i was younger I used to use the word Never a lot. Now I use the word maybe in its place.