Good case or not?

Jul 17th, 2008 | By Michael L. Saile, Jr., Esq. | Category: New Jersey Injury Information, Pennsylvania Injury Information

Yesterday, news broke about the case a was filed in Camden County, New Jersey regarding a doctor applying an unauthorized temporary tattoo.

For those of you who may not know, there is a surgeon in New Jersey that leaves his patients a “special present” when they wake up from surgery. In this case a woman went in for spinal surgery and came out will a temporary type tattoo on her bikini line. The woman has reportedly filed a lawsuit against the doctor.

Do you think this will be a good case or not?

The doctor’s position is that he does this to cheer up his patients.

The woman’s position is that he was unauthorized to do this and it was placed in an inappropriate area.

This doctor was supposed to be doing a spinal surgery. I am not a doctor, but shouldn’t he have been working on her back and not her front side, especially around her private area? Furthermore, what if this woman detested tattoos? Now this woman probably feels like her body and privacy could have been violated and has to live with a temporary tattoo for a week or so…

Good case or not? What do you think she should get from the lawsuit?

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  1. WELL, UNLESS IT WAS ONE OF THOSE TATTOS THING YUOU GET OUT OF A CRACKERJACK BOX, THAT IS IMMEDIATELAYED ABLE TO BE WASHED OFF, IT WAS TOTALLY NOT ONLY INAPPROPRIATE, BUT A CLEAR VIOLATION OF CIVIL LIBERTAIES AND FEDERAL LAW. I AM TOTALLY FOR THE RIGHTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL, AND IN THIS CASE WHAT THE DOCTOR DID WAS WRONG, I DO NOTR CARE HOW GOOD THE DOCTOR IS, INSTEAD OF WORRYING ABOUT THE PATIENTS HEART RATE AND BREATHING, HE WAS PUTTING A LESS THAN WASHABLE TATOO ON HER.
    BLACK LETTER LAW HERE, IT IS AN ASSAULT AND MALPRACTICE

  2. NOW , AND THIS IS FRONM THE DEEPST , DFARKEST PART OF MY SOUL AND MEMORY….
    WHEN I WAS ABOUT 5 OR 6, MY MOM TOOK ME TO A KNEW DENTIST, A CHEAP GUY, M Y AND MY YOUNGER BROTHER, ABOUT 15 MILES DOWN THE HIGHWAY IN LAKEWOOD, FROM FREEHOLD, SIMPLY BECAUSE TIMES WE HARD….

    I WENT IN BEFORE MY BROTHER, AND THE DENTIST PUT ABOUT 20-25 SHOTS OF NEDDLE NOVACAINE INTO MY GUMS, LOCKED THE DOOR AND DROPPED HIS PANTS. FACT FACT FACT, TRIUE STORY. AND THAT IS THAT.
    UPON THE CDONSTANT POUNDING AT THE DOOR THE DOCTOR FINALLY OPENED IT AND LET THE NHURSE IN, I RAN OUT , SCREAMING INCOPHERANATLY, BEGGING MY MOM NOT TO LET MY 3 YEAR OLD BROTHER INTO THE ROOM…
    I WAS SUCESSFUL, ROLLING AND SCREAMING LIKE AN BANCHIE, THAT MY LITTLE BROTHER DID NOT GO IN, WE LEFT,…

    WE WENT BACK TO THE MORMAL DENTIST AFTER THAT, IN TOWN..

    THIS IS IN MY MIND AND WILL FOREVER BE… AND WHOEVER THIS GUY WAS THAT DID THIS, WELL, I HOPE HE HAS BEEN CAUGHT, OR WILL BE PUNISHED FOR ALL TIME BE GOD.
    TRUE TROTY
    JIM.

  3. AND NO ONE CAN TELL ME I AM MAKING THIS STUFF UP, OR THAT I AM DELUSIONAL, IT WAS REAL, IT REALLY HAPPENED, AND THAT IS THAT, IT WAS OVER 36 YEARS AGO. NOW THAT IS MAL PRACTIVE AN ASSAULT AND A LOT MORE. JUST TO GET 20-25 NEDDLES INTO YOUR GUMS, AS A 5 YEAR OLD, FOR A ROUTINE ,FIRST VISIT , HELLO HOW ARE YOU , CHECK UP, WHEN I ALWAYS GOT SWEET AIR AT DR STERNS, …. AND AS AN ADULT I MAY GET ONE SHOT OF NOVACAINE IF NEEDED, BUT FOR A 5 VYEAR OLD TO GET 20-25 SHOTS WOUILD BE AN ASSAULT, AND THEN FOR HIM TO LOCK THE DOOR, GIVE ME SWEET AIT ON TOP OF ITY, AND DROP HIS PANTS.. WEL, THAT IS MORE THAN ASSAULT.
    AND I AM TELLING YOU IT HAPPENED, AND I HAD NO CONTROL OVER IT. I COPULD PROBABLY HAVE USEC REGRESSION THERAPY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THAT,….. ALL I REMEMBER AFTER THAT IS THE NURSE BANGING ON THE DOOR AND FINALLY THE DOCTOR OPENING IT, AND ME RUNNING OUT LIKE A CRAZT MAN, ROLLING ON THE FLOOR SCREAMING, TO PROTECT MY BROTHER FROM GOING IN THERE, TO SAVE HIM,,,,,, AND I DID SAVE HIM…. AND MY MOTHER HAS APOLOZIED A MILLION TIMES, BUT WHAT HAPPENED HAPPENED

  4. REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOU MAY THINK, AND NO ONE ON HERE KNOWS WHO I AM, I CAN SAT THAT MY BEHAVOIR WAS NEVER QUITE NORMAL AFTER THAN

  5. AND I PROBABLY SHGOULKD T SAY THIS, BUT I WILL NOT MENTION HER NAME, A NOW FAMILY COURT COUNTY JUDGE HERE INJ HERE, WHILE HER AND HER FRIEND WERTE BABYSITTING ME AND MY 2 BROTHERS, SEXUALLY ASSAULTED AND ABUSECD ALL 3 OF US BRITHERS, IN OUR BEDS, SITTING ON TOP OF USE, GOING FROM ROOM TO ROOMN, MAKING US FGEEL THEIR BREATSTS. NOW THIS PERSON IS A COUNTY FAMILY COUNTB JUDGE. AND WHILE MY MOTHER AND HER MOTHER AGREED TO NEVER TALK ABNOUT THE INCIDENT AGAIN, I WAS NEVER A PARTY TO THAT AGREEMENT,… SO HERE I AKM TALKING ABOUT IT

  6. BOTYH OF THESE INCIDENTS SHOULD HAVE BEEN LONG FORGOTYTEN AND OVERCOME IN LIFE, AND I HAVE TRIEDE TO OVERCOME EVERY OBSTACLE IN MY LIFE, AND THE ONLY THING HANGING OVER MY HEWAD NOW IS A DIU THAT IS 16 APPEARANCES AND 35 M ONTHS OLD, THAT I CAN NOT FOR THE LIFE OF ME GET RID OF , WIN OR LOSE, THROUGH I TRIAL…

  7. THE POINT HERE IS, I HAVE THE TIME, BEFORE I DIE, TO SIT HERE, DOING NOTHING, BECAUSE OF LANE MILLER, PROSECUTOR, BUT GO OVER MY LIFE AND INCIDENTS AND EVERTYTHING THAT AFFECTS ME. AND ALTHOUGH THIS IS NOT A REAL TOME BLOG, I DONT CARE, BECAUSE SOMEONE WILL PROBABLY READ WHAT I HAVE SAID, AND HOPEFULLY UMDERSTAND IT.

  8. Certainly this surgeon is a nut job who should be censured by the medical board with a suspension requiring psychiatric treatment for reinstatement.

    From the view of the temporary tattoo being an unauthorized medical procedure, there may be a cause of action, but I doubt there would be much of a recovery for damages.
    Finally, the aspect of this being possibly a sexual assault seems like a bit of a stretch.

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