Brickbat: Bad Medicine

A doctor at the University of Florida Health-Leesburg Hospital has been charged with three counts of battery after nurses and an emergency room technician said he repeatedly struck a patient. Dr. Onyekachi Nwabuko accused the woman, who was semi-conscious, of faking her condition and struck her on her face several times with her own hand before a nurse stopped him.

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[Adans smith]

Leslie Nielsen would approve.

[The Encogitationer]

Surely you jest.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Whyareyouhittingyourselfitis.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

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[Will Nonya]

Curious, how does this amount to 3 counts? Did he strike her, leave, return and strike her again? If they happened in succession wouldn't that still be the same instance of battery?

[MatthewSlyfield]

Wouldn't that depend on how the law is written. It wouldn't surprise me if most states battery statutes were written vaguely enough that a prosecutor could get away with separately charging each blow even if they all occurred in rapid succession.

[Think It Through]

Stop hitting yourself. Stop hitting yourself. Stop hitting yourself.

A treatment first introduced by Doogie Howser.

[Utkonos]

Assuming the “facts” presented herein haven’t been doctored, this is a clear case of battery which requires changes. No matter your profession, the premium needs to be placed on basic human decency—operate accordingly, the rest is just theater.

[The Encogitationer]

Basic human decency? Nah, the courts will never buy that! It might lead to things like abolishing "Qualified Immunity" or even "Sovereign Immunity." Can't have that!

[Dillinger]

wtf? The Moe Test is accepted amongst medical peers.

[mad.casual]

The Moe Test? That's early 20th century clown-car nonsense.

We're talking early 21st century medicine here. He should've agreed with her even if he thought she was faking, cut her genitals off whether she actually was faking or not, whether it effectively treated her condition or not, and filed discrimination suits against anyone who thought he was wrong to do so.

[Dillinger]

have nephew who thinks he's niece and is chopping it off. I can't even.

[VinniUSMC]

Dr Onyekachi Nwabuko

Reason: "Oh yeah, perfect place for a picture of a white guy slapping a woman."

[mad.casual]

OTOH, where isn't the perfect place for a picture of a white guy slapping a woman, amiright?

[mad.casual]

I mean, aren't we supposed to be celebrating white guys beating the fuck out of women in women's sports?

[Longtobefree]

Remember, the Reason style guide prohibits a picture that actually relates to an article.

[Rossami]

There are a number of tests for patients faking various conditions (including unconsciousness). I was taught, for example, to use a sternum rub. (Think knuckle-noogie but on your breastbone instead of your head.) None of the established tests include hitting the patient with her own hand but all of them could be charged as assault - and that would be wrong.