Nurse says surgeon threw human tissue at her, sues hospital

One of many reasons I have considered, Alternative Medicine. Hope your compensation, benefits you, and that you find another position, where people will appreciate you.

The OP says the notice was against both Mahan and the hospital. Against Mahan for the hostile environment and against the hospital for failing to deal with the situation appropriately.

I feel so sorry for the patient in all of this. I would feel so betrayed and violated to know my doctor felt so little about my body or surgical procedure to do such a thing.

I wish the patient could sue too.

That's what I was thinking as I read this. The nurse should never have had to have tissue thrown at her - to me, that's a given - but what about the patient whose tissue was chucked around like that?

I don't know that truth of this, but the fact that tissue was thrown that distance (not just accidentally dropped and hit her on the way down) shows a pretty callous disregard on the part of the surgeon even if it hadn't hit the nurse. To me it's a point in favour of her story.

She is suing the hospital for the demotion, not the MD for tossing the tissue. Her attorney just has mentioned these incidents in the complaint to gild the lilly as it were.

I work in the OR and I am so SICK of the surgeons treating us like crap and nothing being done about it. I'm cussed out on a daily basis, belittled, you name it. You write the surgeon up, and nothing is ever done. I am proud of this nurse for taking a stand. From all of us in the OR who have been treated like "you know what..." Thank you!

Why the nursing profession in this nation has not totally unionized under a national labor union, I do not know. If I were a young college grad, I would go to law school and after graduation, specialize in organizing all of the nurses in this country. This kind of bs and the low wage bs would end.

She can get more money from the hospital. They are partially at fault, for not discliplining this guy for borish behavior. what if the person had AIDS and she had a cut on her leg? I say take 'em both down!

The doctors are considered agents of the hospital, especially if the hospital didn't take any actions to discipline the doctor. If she went after the doc, she would get less money than from a hospital. The hospital is also responsible in a way since the situation was not addressed.

She is right to sue the hospital. The doctor...well what can be said about someone who displays this type of behavior? We've all seen it so many times. I believe the term is arrested development. But for the rest of the room to participate by chuckling and not taking a stand against it, and for the institution to actually condone it by punishing the nurse shows an entrenched system of discrimination. And we all know that the only thing hospitals understand is money, honey. Hit 'em where it hurts!