this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2023
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[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Shit sounds like an easy excuse for sexual assault.

[–] [email protected] 101 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It blows my mind that every second under anesthesia isn’t recorded in HD video by both parties, for liability reasons.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (3 children)

the one time I was put under (dental surgery) I used my phone to record audio. really boring drilling sounds.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At least you could confirm what was being…drilled.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Certainly got their filling

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Mirrors were involved too!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

But for real surgery, you cannot take your phone into the OR.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'll do that next time lol

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This shit right here is why people don't trust the medical community. Nonconsensual vaginal and anal exams are beyond the fucking pale. There is legitimately something wrong with these people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

No, this shit is largely unknown, ~~and if you read the article it’s also a thing decades past, and punishable by law nowadays.~~

The reason why people don’t trust medicine is active misinformation about biG bAd PhArMa and appeal to nature.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

if you read the article it’s also a thing decades past, and punishable by law nowadays.

The article says nothing of the sort. 6 states ban the practice, the author assumes it's been decreasing, and medical organizations have made statements opposing the practices. Nevertheless, after those statements were made, the practice was still ongoing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Urgh much better link. I’ll take my mistaken conclusions from that other link out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

In some communities there is a distrust because the government, under the guise of medicine, performed human testing without even informing the patients/victims of what was going on, or outright lying to them.

[–] NerdyPopRocks 2 points 1 year ago

True but I wouldn’t say largely unknown. Depends on what community you come from

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

wait what the fuck

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I believe this is still legal in multiple states.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Procedures involving the mouth were perceived as oral sex, squeezing a ball to make a vein more accessible as squeezing a penis, chest procedures as breast fondling and groin procedures as vaginal penetration.

WARNING: Squeezing a ball is completely different from squeezing a penis!

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And as an fyi for anyone that may be confused: They mean the patient squeezing a rubber ball while their arm is in a tourniquet (the band that goes around the upper arm while blood is drawn).

(But yes, either type of ball is completely different than squeezing a penis. Just goes to show how screwy perception can get while under anesthesia.)

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

A 2013 study of 200 patients receiving propofol found that men were more likely to remember dreams after anesthesia but women were more likely to remember unpleasant dreams. While dreaming and hallucinations are related experiences, people experiencing hallucinations believe they could plausibly be real.

I suppose that if I lived in a society where I had to question my safety on a regular basis (thought about this last night while going into a remote part of my apt building), I'd be more likely to have / remember troubling dreams.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I've been under anesthetic at least 10 times in my life and never dreamed anything, I might as well have been dead.