How Two Letters Ruined a Doctor's Career | The Twisted Case of Allan Zarkin
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- Опубліковано 24 чер 2024
- In 1999, 31 year old dentist Liana Gedz was met with excruciating pain near her abdomen just a few days after birth. When she finally got a deeper look at what happened, she was absolutely mortified because her doctor and friend Allan Zarkin "dr. Zorro" had horrifyingly carved his initials into her abdomen. Why this obstetrician did this would leave Manhattan NYC residents and a whole nation shocked.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Introduction
01:50 - Meets Dr. Allan Zarkin
04:27 - Liana admitted into hospital
07:35 - Liana discovers the truth
10:09 - Lawsuit
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If he did have dementia WHY THE HELL WAS HE OPERATING?? Also how does it excuse him being a pervert and trying to pull an air tube out of a baby?
Exactly!
Indeed, had he suceeded, that would be straightup murder!
agreed, if he has the condition he claims, why was he only barred from applying for a medical license for 5 years?
It's not an excuse but inappropriate sexual behavior is often a symptom of dementia.
It must have been in the United States of America because the president of the United States have dementia
Disgusting how medical staff kept coming in to look at what he did and no one told her.
My thoughts exactly. That is such deplorable behaviour, especially taking place immediately after this new mom's major surgery.
My thoughts exactly. That is such deplorable behaviour, especially taking place immediately after this new mom's major surgery.
I also think it's disgusting that her family didn't tell her.
@MamaMOB oh absolutely. That doesn't make sense either.
I do wonder if the husband specifically asked everyone who entered the room to not say anything, although I doubt he could have been there the ENTIRE time
As a OBGYN and chief of my hospital’s women’s medicine department, my mouth literally dropped. I can only apologize on behalf of my profession. This doctor doesn’t deserve the right to be called a doctor.
What insane behaviour! I imagine that as rare as I hope it would be, that it wouldn’t be something restricted to OBGYNs. Mine was absolutely amazing and helped me deliver two healthy term babies via planned c sections due to my complicated anatomy. What struck me was how inappropriate this doctor was to establish a social relationship with his patient as described. Am I right to assume that’s a type of professional boundary doctors usually don’t cross? Also, if someone in the operating room observe a surgeon behaving inappropriately (I would think internal alarm bells would have gone off when they witnessed the doctor carve the first letter!), what’s the appropriate response at the time to ensure patient safety?
I have no idea how this even happens.
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Let it roll off your back bro, he wasn’t part of your profession but a sociopathic actor
@@shannond1511English phd or md commenter? 😂 just my silly curiosity.
They weren't told anything, important details were hidden , they literally came to gawk and laugh at her. That whole damn hospital needs re-training.
They need to leave medicine
The fact he tried to take the breathing tube away from their baby enrages me. He wasn't a physician, he was a sadist and attempted murderer.
EXACTLY OMG why is no one TALKING ABOUT THIS PART literally ATTEMPTED INFANTICIDE
Everyone who knew what he did to her and that baby needed to be held accountable.
I can't help but feel like that was his way of controling this couple and exerting their power. If they needed him in order to have a baby, he was willing to do whatever it takes to keep them needing him. Appearantly even murder.
This whole situation is weird. I hope his whole medical team got fired.
Right? Like it’s just strange how they didn’t report it right away.
Yes-- medical staff would have witnessed him carving his initials-- They should have reported it immediately-- the same day. And why were so many gawking at her so disrespectfully without informing her of what was wrong immediately?
@@heidih3048right. So sick they should all be fired and disbarred.
How did no one stop him when he started carving the first letter, let alone allow him to finish carving TWO letters!? If I was in the operating room, I would have rushed out and pages another surgeon to get in there and take over straight away, as well as security to hold this guy long enough for the police to arrive!
Was he friggin standing there alone? Nobody hesitated when he asked to be handed a scalpel from the table? Or did he pull it from his pocket or something? WTF I'm so confused
It's frightening to be in such vulnerable situations knowing that there are sicko's out there and we are completely at their mercy.
I know right, it’s horrible
@@PetalPalmer Thank you for all you do to try to bring some of them to our attention - and to remind us that they exist, and these horrors happen to someone every day.
This reminds me of a similar case in Birmingham, UK in which a surgeon named Simon Bramhall burned his initials with electric beams on livers of two patients during liver transplant surgeries in 2013. Other doctors did not discover his misconduct until one of the patients received another surgery due to complications. He was charged with two counts of assault by battery in 2017 and banned from practicing medicine in 2022.
This one is more bizarre, though. Who the hell will leave initials literally on patient skin? That is not just reckless but makes zero sense. It makes the abuse so evident that everyone can see it and will definitely lands whoever did this in trouble, while sound-minded "real" A-holes will try hard to hide their true nature.
This would be a great one for Petal to cover!!
narcissists and psychos who have an extreme lust for power are frequently drawn to the position of surgeon unfortunately. they are attracted to the idea of being able to essentially play god
He BRANDED Her!
This is too far beyond sick and twisted but it answers my puzzlement as to why the mom was not given a pelvic block that would have kept her fully awake, alert and AWARE. Thankfully they got a child from the ordeal who is now about 22 years old. I pray their lives are fully blessed.
I'm sure it was so she did know what they were going to do to her
I had a C-section fully awake with an epidural, that part totally confused me too, I thought why the heck was she alseep?
@@prehistoricorchid3455 Indeed it was!
@@samsalamander8147 Yes! I understand hospitals have hierarchies so many "peasants" fear speaking out against the demigods of surgery but THIS ought to have spurred a person to action. I've never understood not saying anything, not blowing the whistle but to stand there watching and doing nothing...How?!!🥺
@@samsalamander8147 Congratulations on your baby👶🏻
This churns my stomach. It’s like he wanted to “sign his work” like an artist to a painting. And the fact that another physician busted out in laughter because of it? That they piled in to ogle at her like a spectacle? Are these people deranged?? I can’t imagine how the mother feels, this takes being objectified to the next level
I remember hearing about this in the news when I was in university, and it made my blood boil.
All these years later - it still does. I had no idea how large those letters were! It's beyond vile.
He should have been made to pay for any and all plactic surgeries she had to go through to get rid of this. OR, a tattoo, maybe.
I know right?! The letters were huge - he could’ve at the very least had some kind of decency to make it a little smaller but nope.
Ah that would’ve been a great idea. I truly wonder how the scar is doing and if she was able to get rid of it or covered up.
not sure how religious the family was but she mentioned they were both Jewish, Jewish cemeteries won't allow people with tattoos to be buried so it's unlikely she'd want to cover it with a tattoo. the craziest part of this story to me is how many hospital staff knew about it and didn't do anything. I wonder what the other allegations/patient complaints against him were, you don't just go straight from a squeaky clean record to carving your initials into a patient.
@@emmalineconrad244hello! resident jew here. the idea that jewish cemeteries won’t bury you with a tattoo is largely a misconception. pretty much a myth. i cant guarantee there isn’t ONE cemetery out there which would refuse a burial- perhaps maybe in remote haredi communities but all other jewish cemeteries won’t have an issue burying you. it’s a mitzvah to take care of the dead and there isn’t an exception if your body is mutilated or modified. she likely wouldn’t get a cover tattoo anyway though, because there’s a quote in the Torah saying it is wrong to self mutilate- and most jews took this to include tattoos because you are technically piercing the skin. i assume she is religious, because she went to a jewish hospital in new york
@@DinahAO oh, thanks for the information! my best friend is Jewish and he's always gone back and forth about getting a (Star of David) tattoo, and that was his stated reason. Maybe he's mixing up taboos. I knew about caring for the dead being a mitzvah but I never really thought about it in the context of tattoos or piercings, totally makes sense though.
There is no law forbidding burial of a Jewish person with tattoos. Check with your rabbi.
No prison time makes me absolutely sick. And the fact that he could apply for a license after five years?!?! Wtf. The LEAST that should have been done is not allow him to practice ever again.
Indeed, plus he tried to kill her newborn. If attemped murder can't get a doctor fired, what could?
That one nurse is a hero. The fact that it wasn't reported to the hospital just makes their actions more brave. The nurse would have known the doctor's reputation and the hospital's pattern of sweeping serious issues under the rug.
Literal hero nurse
That nurse was complicit. Yes, they saved that baby, yet the event went unreported. That nurse should've been the one to report it right after it happened! Why the fuck didn't they?? Instead they left it to be discovered later and allowed the doctor to escape punishment. How were they brave enough to save a baby's life but too cowardly to file an accident report/complaint after the fact? Or maybe they were just lazy? More afraid of getting fired than of having other potential accidents on their conscience? I wonder.
@@HappyLilac16 Reporting doctors is very fraught, and despite what measures may be in place, people can and do get retaliated against.
@@HappyLilac16it went “unreported” doesn’t neccicarily mean that the nurse didn’t report it. It could also mean that the staff didn’t file the report. That’s happened to me multiple times when I was younger.
He tried to kill the baby. He should be in jail.
Oh my god this is so creepy & gross. I thought you meant 2 written letters like complaints lol
Right?? It’s just so sick that he did that. Hahaha, oh how I wish it was just 2 written letters instead of this
I thought the same!!!!! I literally YELLED at the reveal, if my neighbors were home they probably heard a muffled “WHAT THE FUCK?!?!” 😂😭 Seriously what an absolute psychopath!!!!! Obstetric violence is so real and absolutely stomach-churning…one of the many, many reasons I’m taking steps to NEVER even have the sliver of a possibility of getting pregnant 😵💫
He was angry to the couple, and went to take the life of the baby!
What a parasite...
What the hell? This is even worse than that surgeon a few years ago who branded his patients' organs.
What? I hadn’t heard about this! That is crazy
Yeah I was so shocked when I googled this case that there was ANOTHER doctor who branded a patient with his initials
@@Lindsey0007yeah he wrote initials ON THE LITERAL ORGAN I think it was the liver ? Yeah he did that to 2 people with a laser. It got discovered because another doctor was doing surgery on a patient 🤔 like wtf
The public would be horrified to see what goes on behind closed doors
Ah exactly, it’s so scary how things like this can happen
I would let any of the public watch what my coworkers and I do behind closed doors. We treat patients with respect and advocate for them. I've never even seen/heard how anything close to this could happen.
A friend told me a nurse secretly alerted her to the fact they dropped her husband in the OR when transporting him from bed to table. To this day they feel his back troubles are a result of it
Oh my god, he literally BRANDED her like cattle. This is so disturbing and the most shocking case of obstetric violence I’ve seen discussed on YT.
What about Petals story on Dr Chavis that was bad too
Big Keith Rainere vibes... what level of narcissism does it takes to think you can carve or brand your initials on a woman's body like they're your property?
Ikr? Disgusting!
My head went to Raniere too, immediately. Like I was expecting the two letters being a typo on prescription or something, not branding people like cattle.. But if a job includes any authority over others, narcissists & psychopaths will strive for it, be it cop, soldier, doctor or cult leader. We must be very aware.
That’s exactly what I was thinking.
And then to attempt to murder the baby, because she was upset, instead of treating him like the god he thought he was. Wow
I speak as a retired nurse, had I'd been aware of something like this I would have been reporting the Dr immediately. It is so disheartening to know nobody stopped him from doing harm to a patient and then found it something to gossip about.
The fact that a medical professional became friends with the family, outside a professional friendliness, is a red flag to begin with
Wow, what a sick man. What part of his hippocratic oath covers the mutilation of a new mother, I wonder? Once again, great storytelling.
Congratulations on your first 100 subscribers! 🎉 Can't wait to see you keep growing.
I know right? Just horrible.
Aww thank you so much for your support, it truly means a lot to me! ☺️
I wonder what he did to other patients that was not reported.
Do no harm is no longer a part of the oath. It can't be if it is the doctors can't perform abortions.
modern doctors dont actually have to swear by the hippocratic oath. it would be like having lawyers swear by athena. they have modern standards like hipaa
@@partyinthecloudkingdom i can see why they would wish to no longer acknowledge the thing that says "do no harm" lol. not that there was ever any truth in it, i'm sure
As a former c-section baby delivered at Beth Israel...I definitely need to ask my mom if she remembers who her OBGYN was.
That is absolutely crazy. He had undiagnosed dementia when this happened which is why he had the nerve to do this. Also, one component of dementia is inappropriate sexual behavior. All of the signs were there but no one had the nerve to do anything about it.
Scary the hospital would allow a man with dementia to work with patients, let alone operate on them!
Ty for this explanation. I had no clue why youd do this.
????!?!why was he only banned from a doc license for 5 yrs if he had dementia -- a progressive disease1
My mom retired from an oncology clinic. One of the doctors started showing signs of mental issues. Ex: an electrician came over and was replacing the thermostat.... The doctor told the tech to get the hell out! Accused the him of installing spy equipment. And had already been overheard talking to himself and being convinced some of the medical equipment was doing weird things..... he was not just a Dr but also a partner in the practice. Obviously the other doctors thought he needed some help but they don't have any power to make him get help. My mom has since retired but the last I know he was still practicing medicine
@@sparkplugpeggy4910 it reminds me of Grey's anatomy where one of the surgeon's cognitive was declining but would REFUSE to retire or quit. I forget if it was dementia or not
It is insane to me how he thought it was okay to carve his initials basically marking her because he helped her and her husband finally get a successful pregnancy and birth to a healthy baby girl..
Fr like that’s your fucking job you get paid for that you deserve nothing else. Insane
Wtf? If he actually has a form of dementia, he shouldn’t be practicing medicine whatsoever.
There is something seriously wrong with him. That’s not a reasonable mistake, that’s is seriously poor judgement.
I never realised how medical personnel also have a huge responsibility to check that their coworkers remain able to practice medicine - Are they ever instructed on what to do in a situation like this? You know, do they have anyone they can go to if they notice coworkers experiencing mental decline? Or is this a bit of a blind-spot in the industry?
They learn about noticing/correcting their coworkers mistakes because those can happen to anyone. The idea is that if there are enough people paying attention then there’s a better chance that at least one person will notice the mistake. If a mistake does occur then it has to be reported to the hospital, but there aren’t really any age-specific guidelines. There are some people advocating for mandatory cognitive screening tests for older healthcare workers like they have for pilots, and I know a few hospitals have tried implementing it. I think it’s gets tricky for them legally because the doctor could easily turn around and sue for age discrimination.
@@alicehammond7622 which doesn't make sense. If anyone can't pass a psych evaluation to proceed in a life or death career, then they shouldn't be practicing. Regardless of age.
The problem is that there is often a very steep power differential between doctors and other healthcare staff, which makes it very difficult for staff to feel comfortable reporting a physician. Especially some of these old school surgeons who are used to being treated like Gods in the hospital.
It can be even worse in clinics, because oftentimes physicians are part owners of the business, so the only people who can do anything about it are other physician owners, and sometimes they don't even have the ability to remove a provider.
Fortunately, that is changing in healthcare, but it's a slow process.
I love your content. I've actually never come across a channel that focuses on incompetent doctors who need to be accountable for flat-out MURDERING, neglecting and treating patients as if they are nothing.
I have been treated like garbage by doctors, nurses and even EMTs. I have been yelled at, and gaslit, among other things. I have severe pain in my spine and it took 4+ years for them to even do one single X-ray.
They finally did one and the ER doctor said "Everything looks fine." I went to see my family doctor and he said you have pretty bad arthritis and your spine is curved. I have to walk with a cane now and I won't be able to walk in about 7 years. I was gaslit by a family doctor who works in the ER and has a massive ego and he acts like a sociopath. I sat there for 7 hours without any pain medication and it was the worst pain I had ever felt. I have reported him 4 times to that hospital and nothing has ever been done. He needs to be fired, along with a few other "ER" doctors at my local hospital. They are family physicians. They are NOT equipped to deal with people in the ER in my opinion. This idiot didn't even know how to give a proper ultrasound on my uterus.
This is horrible! But it is not the only case i have heard of. I remember reading about a Native American man being treated in a medical center on one of the Reservations, having a Swastika or something carved into him while he was an unconscious patient under anesthetic.
Omg 😱
Disgusting. People like that are so inhumane they shouldn’t be considered as human.
wtfff
Stories like this are a big reason why I will never get pregnant if I can help it. Everyone seems to treat pregnant people like garbage, even the people that they're supposed to be able to trust the most. I hope Liana is well now, wherever she is.
So true, it really is scary how they’re treated. Also I’m actually pretty sure I found Liana’s dentistry page and social medias and whatnot but it seems she hasn’t talked much about this story since it happened and this was my main reason why I didn’t add in her pictures or anything and just used information provided from the news articles (just in case she didn’t want her face seen). But she looks to be doing very well!
@@PetalPalmer oh, that's a relief.
Conscious or unconscious, pregnant and laboring women ARE treated badly. Like cattle, kind of.
Pregnant PEOPLE? ONLY WOMEN have ever, will ever get pregnant.
What are the other stories like this about pregnant people?
There was a case near me in the UK where a surgeon branded multiple patients livers with his initials during surgery and they only discovered it upon a further surgery down the line. So messed up, Simon Bramhall is his name.
"How Two Letters Ruined a Doctor's Career" is a ""CUTE"" way to say that the Doctor was an absolutely deranged man WTF
You are the only youtuber i know who covers medical malpractice cases! Keep it up! We need to know this information!
It is sad that here in the states we do so much to protect dangerous doctors despite risking peoples wellbeing and lives. There is not enough done to protect patients and people wonder why people are moving more towards naturopathy and demonizing modern medicine.
Edit: my mom has a medical malpractice story which is pretty bad. Would you ever consider doing something like Hannah Alonzo and read our malpractice stories out loud? I can see if she would share it-- although she would probably want to remain anonymous. The doctor who did this to her just moved around states when his license was revoked in each one. Yeah, this happened multiple times in multiple states, not just here in Ohio.
If he did have Pick's disease that makes the behaviour of the other medics even more abhorrent. Knowing he’d done this and was liable to do it again, yet still protected him is against everything medicine should be about. Obviously they wouldn’t have known his diagnosis but they would have known about his behaviours. In the U.K. we’ve recently had a nurse called Lucy Letby who murdered 7 babies at least. Despite consultants raising alarms the Countess of Chester Hospital protected her so not to give the hospital a bad name, in fact the consultants were the ones threatened with disciplinary action. This sort of thing has to stop, ‘whistleblowers' should be listened to, respected and be made to feel safe to voice concerns.
The parents were Jewish from two countries where antisemitism is rife and extreme. To think they’d found a safe haven in a country like America, only for this to happen must have been soul destroying.
My late mother had Lewy Bodies Dementia, it’s amazing how much personalities can change. However, as a boomer myself is their anything more creepy than a boomer discussing previous sexual encounters?
So. They don't think he's a danger to the public even after finding out he tried to KILL their newborn after mutilating her? I just....how is he NOT a danger to others? Yes he definitely needs mental health support due to his condition but he is absolutely dangerous. I don't know if his condition made him a raging narcissist or not but that level of disregard for others is 100% dangerous. Especially considering the long term relationship they'd built with him. He can get help and still go to prison for the attempted murder of an infant even if they didn't want to see him jailed for his brutal assault. This is horrible and they went through so much pain that would have been made much worse if a single nurse hadn't stepped in to physically restrain him.
Mental and physical health shouldn't absolve people from facing the consequences of their criminal actions. It should only be taken into consideration when discussing how those consequences should be handled. Therapy yes absolutely! But also prison! He literally tried to murder a newborn and essentially stood by a lot of his actions after the fact and it partially being due to health complications doesn't mean he should just get to wander around freely. This was ... maddening.
This is why I'm against the "forgive and forget" mentality, it's only beneficial to repeat offenders.
@@blondbraid7986 Exactly. Honestly it's that same attitude that makes it difficult for DV victims to get out of their situations OR the abusers to learn to do better. Because they drag down the charges if the victim doesn't want to get the law involved without addressing why a victim wouldn't press official charges even when there's TONS of evidence of abuse.
There just have to be real consequences AND rehabilitation efforts or we create a cycle of criminality. Which is ...what this country kind of subsists on. (I'm in the US for clarity and I think our Justice System is massively messed up and helps basically no one.)
How could they not see the creepiness of this guy? No doctor behaves this way.
I have heard so many OBGYN horror stories and it shocks me how society accepts this treatment of women. This case is particularly extreme.
As a man, I have never experienced what women go through at OBGYN and it breaks my heart that women don't receive the same patience and respect that I have received at the hands of medical professionals.
Your videos are really great. Thank you!
That made me tear up. The world really needs more guys like you.
Literally nothing, NOTHING could have prepared me for what he has done. What. The. Actual. Hell.
Honestly i think he got off lightly. He should've been sent to jail. He literally destroyed the trust between a patient and a doctor. Anyone who hears this won't be as comfortable now. What a psycho.
That should have barred him for life from the medical field. 5 years is nothing for that kind of disregard for another human being.
This is even worse from a Jewish perspective. We're not supposed to get tattoos or any other procedure that unnecessarily alters the body. This man literally played G-d. He altered her body in the worst possible way, thus adding a religious layer to the utter horror.
I'm trying to find out if he was Jewish, too. Anyone should know better, but a Jew should know better than anyone due to the Torah's teachings and their importance in our lives.
You have such a calming sweet voice.
Ah thank you so much :)
High-key why I always want a female doctor if I can help it
I remember how they downplayed the severity of his actions on the news at the time. Around this same time, my mum's OB/GYN, who also had privileges at Mt. Sinai / Beth Israel, had to be suspended because of the excessive procedures / surgeries he was performing so he wouldn't have to work during Shabbat - some of which had serious complications for mother and child. And still more medical negligence / sexual assaults were commited by other OB / GYNs that were swept under the rug until recently.
I feel like most surgeons have a certain level of narcissism and sociopathy. Definitely no excuse for their behavior. With that said my husband had knee surgery with a “renowned” surgeon whom made us fully aware that he made sure he “autographed” his knee internally prior to closing the surgical wound. At the time I was just happy my spouse’s surgery went well but after I had time to process his statement I was honestly dumbfounded, thank goodness he had a great recovery. However, till this day I find that it was totally unnecessary and unprofessional.
Think of it this way, had it not been stellar work the next surgeon would have revealed a signed confession. How convenient. But that is hard to fathom for people like us who don't have some kind of personality disorder. Quick google search calls it surgical personality disorder, I call it so far up his own caboose he's full of himself. My grandma loved her new knees so much she kept wearing them out and was on her third set when she passed. Glad your husband had a good result.
You are doing really good videos! Keep going!!! 👍👍👍
(Also it would be very worthy cause to rise awareness about how women lose their lives or stay in pain, because dismissal or hypochondriacy label in medical setting.
As you have a lovely calm voice and only tell a story, I think this approach might have a positive impact).
Aww thank you so much for your kind words, I truly appreciate that a lot!
Yes most definitely, it’s such an important topic and I for sure plan to cover more stories on it.
What a 🐷 He tried to take the life of a child so the couple would rely on him always
Exactly so ridiculous
Not only is this incredibly horrifying and disgusting in and of itself, the fact that this was done to a Jewish refugee by a Jewish doctor and staff is extra disgusting. I'm Jewish and just hearing that sent chills down my spine - from a young age most of us are hyperaware of the historical implications of forced tattooing/branding. It just adds another layer to how disgusting of an act it was
When you worship a patriarchal God and your religion inherently views women as inferior, it's easy to just go with whatever the male with the most authority in the room is doing. That's the problem with ALL abrahemic religions.
@scarymonsterzz I'm a reconstructionist, queer, atheist jew. Obviously patriarchy within religion is a problem, but this isn't simply about religion - I was referring to ethnic discrimination against Jews, and to try and oversimplify that with a "but all Abrahamic religions are bad" does more harm than good
the suspense and then the reveal of what happened was incredibly shocking. like omg that was the last thing i thought you would say. i can’t imagine the surprise the mother felt wtf.
Of everything I thought it could’ve been, that was the absolute most bizzare thing I could imagine
I have been an OB/L&D nurse for almost 40 years by the time I retired. I have worked in major cities in teaching medical centers and small rural community hospitals. I have worked with some dynamite FPs, CNMs, and OBs. I have also worked with some real assholes. Never had I heard of any healthcare giver carving his name into his patient. I am also shocked that no one in the OR did anything.
This couple should have owned Beth Isreal Hospital.
We had a similar case here in the UK recently. A surgeon who did liver transplants carved his initials in his patients’ new livers. He only got caught when one of his patients had to be opened up for a second time to deal with some complication or other, and the surgeon who did the second operation saw it.
This poor woman would not of been his only victim
I know right, it's horrible he had so many other reports against him
WHAAAAAAAT IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE F@CK???!!!!!! I had a c-section. My daughter (now 17) was slightly early. I remember how painful it was. To think he ADDED to that???!!! This is so sick and disgusting!!!! I am so very sorry this happened to this family and I pray for their beautiful family and many blessings!!!
This actually shocked me to my core. This goes beyond branding- CARVING your initials into someone is less than deplorable.
His name and his looks are perfect for a badguy in a movie.
So creepy.
I've been watching a bunch of your videos after being reccomended one by the algorithm. Thank you for making these! These stories are awful and sometimes hard to listen to, but they need to be told, and you tell them with empathy.
I would feel so violated. Even if it's not something life threatening, it's mental abuse and even if I hate tattoos I would get that covered up / changed / whatever
You are an amazing storyteller. I was on the edge of my seat during this video. Found your channel earlier and subscribed pretty soon after.
I have some complex letters in my initials, I wonder if he'd like them on his forehead.
Hello Petal.I just found your channel today.I have just binge watched all of your vlogs.
I really enjoy your content. Please continue reporting on more of these cases.
Hello from Canada.
I love your name.❤
I found your channel just today and you went from 8k to 9k subscribers in just 8 hours 🥳🥂 It is totally well deserved. You’re a great storyteller. I’ve watched three of your videos today and I’m glad you’ve started making longer videos. I would highly suggest publishing audio only to podcast platforms if you haven’t done so or considered it already 😅
Pedal I really love your voice and delivery of this video .. subscribed x
Aw thank you so much, I appreciate that a lot! :)
She covers these topics with such grace and consideration. She does the genre right and does it with dignity.
Just found your channel and it is so interesting! You explain things so well, and the videos are great! Can't wait to see more from you x
Petal, you are not only a great story teller, but you have very intense, striking eyes. Thank you for the work you do, all the luck for your future.
Man that never stopped to stop seeing woman as their property is DISGUSTING. It is scary that we are in 2023 and this mindset still exist - honestly, I have no hope for the future.
EDIT: I know this case happened in the 90's
I hate that I love the true crime stories about medical staff. Thank you for bringing these situations to light.
I’m binge watching your videos. They’re so well made!
Such great videos!! You can tell how much time, effort & research you put into each one. Amazing content & you cover such interesting cases/stories!!
I really like how much you research the information you provide.
the fact that so many woman are already insecure about a normal c section scar, I can't imagine the mental pain and and feelings behind having your doctors name carved into you. especially after she tried so desperately to have that baby. he literally branded her and her baby as his because "ohh he's the ooonly reason she has a kid". as you said she didnt owe him anything and it's insane he could even think doing his job gives him any right to how his patients live life
I don’t know how I have never came across your channel. Absolutely love your content!
Just had this channel recommended to me, very glad it was!
Absolutely insane! Great video
I cant believe everyone was looking at her like a spectical. Thats disgusting
Omg I love your channel
He would lose his license in any way. His defense was basically claiming insanity.
OMG I'm paused at 8:25 my jaw literally just dropped and I scared my dog by gasping out loud... HE DID WHAT?! I am absolutely horrified I can't...
You are an EXCELLENT storyteller. I’m heckin subscribing
I’m enjoying all of your reports!
This was wild. I do not understand why he thought he could scar this woman with his initials. What were his previous behaviors? Is there more to his story? This could not be a one off. He had to have behaviors that led to this. Why didn't his team say something to the hospital when he started acting like that in the OR? I have so many questions...
No one ever speaks up against doctors especially when they work for them
It actually gave me vibes of a weird 'throuple' situation. Highly unethical to be that personally involved with patients and seems like they were reeeally close. Bizarre.
I appreciate your listing detailed description and sources. Strong work, @petalparker
Holy crap! You're up over 30,000 subscribers from 13,000 3 days ago?! You go girl!
I love your channel!
Ah thank you! Means a lot :)
He brands this woman, and gets banned from the profession for five years. In what world is that fair punishment?
It’s crazy to me that you don’t have millions of subscribers your content is extremely high quality the research you do is so good and I enjoy your content so much I can tell you are passionate about each topic and also your room that you film in is really cute and looks super cozy I fr watch every video and look forward to your uploads
Petal you have the best Podcast/Narration voice!!
Your voice is so soothing!
I remember when this was on the news. Thanks 👋👋🤗💜💜
I said "what the fuck???" when you revealed what he did. What kind of sicko does this? Jesus christ.
At the very least this video is convincing me even further to get my tubes tied, god. Pregnant people are so dehumanized.
I really like your channel! Please keep making videos 🥺♥️
You’re videos are extremely well done and really interesting 🤔
Heard about the carving but didn't know about the breathing tube. That's not a doctor that's a paycho. Can't believe nobody told her about ig either.
I love this channel and videos. Can we say how professional, poised and beautiful this young lady is?? Thank you for what you do! 😊
We studied this at uni (in Scotland). In 2001, all doctors found the one carving (without the extra stuff) creepy.
How did a hospital think they would cover that up.
WTF?!?! It’s terrifying that there’s doctors like this that exist
OMG - that is insane. How could anyone think that was okay? How was this doctor still practicing? Horrific.
This is absolutely absurd. It reminds me of the doctor that carved his initials on a patients organ during a surgery, i think it was on his liver.
I was not expecting this!!!