Doctor-Patient
Confidentiality
A very sexually active woman tells her plastic surgeon that
she
wants her vaginal lips reduced in size because they were loose
and
flapping.
Out of embarrassment she insisted that the surgery be kept a
secret
and the surgeon agreed.
Awakening from the anesthesia after the surgery she found
three
roses carefully placed beside her on the bed. Outraged, she
immediately calls in the doctor. "I thought I asked you not to
tell
anyone about my operation!"
The surgeon told her he had carried out her wish for
confidentiality and that the first rose was from him: "I felt
sad
because you went through this all by yourself."
The second rose is from my nurse . She assisted me in the
surgery
and empathized because she had the same procedure done some time
ago."
And what about the third rose?" she asked.
"Oh, that rose is from a man upstairs in the burn unit. He
wanted
to thank you for his new ears."
