Irresponsible Anesthesiologist Responsible for Sexting during Surgery

Have you ever wondered what actually goes on while you’re under the knife? Television has us thinking the worst. For example, that Seinfeld episode where Kramer drops the Junior Mint in the patient’s open cavity during surgery. Or that Kayak commercial where the doctor is performing brain surgery and is using the patient to search for hotels. Well, in Seattle, an anesthesiologist has been accused of something you can only find on TV.

The Washington state Medical Quality Assurance Commission has suspended the medical license of the doctor after he was accused of sending sexual text messages during surgery. He is being accused of compromising patient safety because during surgeries he was too preoccupied with sexual matters than with his patients.

On one account, he sent over 45 text messages in a 90-minute surgery. During this same surgery, the doctor was able to send a picture message of his genitals and commented about how his partner walked in and may have caught him in the act.

The accusations don’t stop there! The doctor is alleged to have taken confidential patient medical record imaging and using them for his own sexual gratifications. He is also being blamed for having sexual encounters at the hospital with one of his patients, who also happens to be his girlfriend.

On top of the sexual allegations, the doctor was caught writing unauthorized prescriptions. According to the Health Department, the doctor “issued at least 29 unauthorized prescriptions for controlled substances and legend drugs outside of his medical practice and didn’t conduct proper evaluations, diagnoses, or treatment plans for these patients.”

The doctor has 20 days to request a hearing and see if he can get his medical license back. In the meantime, he is suspended from the hospital where he works out of and all his membership privileges have been revoked while the hospital conducts its own investigation.