pretty stupid of the doctor. Of course the patient is suing and will be extremely well compensated.

Things like this probably happen more often than we think.

Personally, the little wench who called a reporter and left a message about it is the worst piece of crap.

If you want to report to the hospital administration, fine. Reporting such a misdeed to the freaking newspaper is just wrong.

At first I was disappointed the article didn't come with a picture (purely for scientific reasons ofcourse), but now I just want to hear that telephone call..

not surprised at all...my wife is a nurse and she used to work with an ER doc that carried a camera with him and took pics of things all the time. he always took pics of peoples tattoos and said he collected them...maybe he has relocated!

I presume by "wench" you mean "nurse" 2many. The article only said staff, but perhaps it was a nurse. Who could have reported him to administration, and as a result would have heard a deafening silence in the wake of her complaint.

Docs bring in the bucks; hospitals don't discipline them unless forced.

... I was kind of hoping to see the tattoo in question.

okay, how is this any different than the 'things up the butt' xrays that get passed around?

At least the doctor had the shnads to call the guy personally.

I don't have any tattoos, but if I had one on my hoo-hoo, that would probably mean I intended for it to be seen, and might even be flattered that they found it interesting enough to photograph.

Man I'm sick of this whiny crap. A guy who gets "hot rod" tatooed on his member is crying about being humiliated?!?! what the??

I'm going to go put a santa hat on a whale or something.

Harumph.

did that grammatical error really not get checked before being published?

i don't get what the big deal is. i have "McLovin" tattooed on mine!

Excellent point, but I still say it was beyond tacky to report the incident to a newspaper. If the hospital administration wouldn't do anything, than go to someone else, licensing board, AMA, ethics board, whatever.

There are many other places to complain before you run to the newspaper, unless you want just the results that occurred.

I wouldn't be surprised if the hospital did try and keep it quiet. I am sure they would have done it for any of their employees to save the expense of a lawsuit. Now thanks to this anonymous individual the guy will probably pocket a large sum of money. I wonder if the patient knows who the anonymous informer was?

That is not to say I would or do condone it. What the doctor did was wrong.

Edit: "wench" could mean any member of staff, not just a nurse. After all any of the staff members including doctors could be women and any of the nurses may be guys. :-)