Colorectal Surgeon Sues Hospital For Being Put On Leave After Removing “Massive” Dildo From Patient’s Anus
A “missile-shaped” object was extremely difficult to remove from a patient’s asshole, so a team of colorectal surgeons stepped in to help. After the patient was successfully treated, the real drama started. Via NY Post:
New York Presbyterian Hospital administrators bizarrely grilled a female surgeon on her sex life and accused her of violating a patient’s privacy after she helped save a man with a “large foreign object” stuck in his rectum, she contends in a new lawsuit.
Doctors struggled to help the man during the February 2020 incident, said colorectal surgeon Dr. Deborah Keller, who was called in multiple times to assist and finally helped successfully extract the unidentified item from the patient’s body.
But instead of praising her for kicking butt, Keller, 41, claims the next day she was put on administrative leave and later “interrogated” by hospital administrators, who “sexualized” the object as a “dildo”; questioned whether Keller was having sex with the male surgeon in charge of the patient’s care, and violated the man’s privacy by circulating an image of the object, she claims in a Manhattan Federal Court lawsuit.
The inquisition by the hospital’s internal hearing committee was “demeaning and embarrassing,” said Keller, who declined to discuss the object and claims doctors “don’t really know” what the “massive” missile-shaped item was.
“They kept using inappropriate terms for the foreign [object], it was just getting contentious and questions that just didn’t have anything to do with the practice of medicine or patient care or colorectal surgery, making what I do seem like a joke,” said Keller.
She admitted in court papers to sending a picture of the unidentified anal object to a surgical resident who had struggled to remove it in the emergency room — but only in an effort to show that the object was too large to remove without going to the operating room, she said in the litigation.
