I had three surgeries - including brain surgery - at Swedish while this guy was working for them. This is way beyond "hooked on thrills," this is sheer negligence. Think about everyone you know who has ever taken their phone into the shitter with them. Now think about how many of those people sterilized their phone afterward. Now think about that phone in a (formerly) sterile OR. Phones are pretty filthy anyway, AND he's using it to do dirty things, but the latter is the least important issue to a patient exposed to infection. This jerkbag is my nightmare.

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Legend=prescription drugs

He's an anesthesiologist. He sedates the patient and then monitors the patient through a machine the patient is hooked up to. The monitor beeps, the anesthesiologist reacts, they do not perform surgery. Anybody who has ever been present in a surgery can see the media is skewing this story beyond belief. His actions were completely inappropriate, but it's not comparable to texting while driving. The way the media is portraying is like the guy had one hand performing surgery and the other on his phone texting.