What do you do when you can’t trust the medical system, and the law can’t step in?
For one humiliated, violated Sydney teacher, the only solution is to fight to ensure what happened to her can’t happen again.
When Brieana Rose* woke up from general anaesthetic after a simple procedure to check for uterine cancer, she believed all had gone to plan.
That is, until her surgeon told her that while she’d been unconscious with her legs in stirrups, a graphic photo had been taken of her genitals.
“Her words were, ‘You don’t have cancer but something else happened during the operation,'” Brieana recounts. “And she told me that a photograph had been taken, a sexually explicit photo, that the nurse had taken it whilst I was unconscious and showed it to her colleagues.”
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Name and shame the nurse everywhere you can. If you stick to facts and don't use perjorative language, you can certainly inform any forums around healthcare in your general area that there is a theatre nurse who did xyz to you and was dismissed but is still practicing and her name is... .... Be very factual, don't embellish.
Thankyou Breiana for your strength.
This is absolutely disgusting.
I hope things do change.