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You can bet no more practical jokes for this dentist
Dentist Robert Woo's problems began when he put fake boar's tusks in an anesthetized patient's mouth and snapped a photo. Six years later, a battle is still simmering. (Seattle Times)
June 20, 2005 | Permalink
Comments
Hey lady, get a sense of humor!
Posted by: pootsie | Jun 20, 2005 5:42:49 AM
"I was offended, gimme a million bucks!"
So who was the lawyer who invented post-traumatic stress disorder?
Posted by: SwarthyTroll | Jun 20, 2005 6:50:35 AM
Kind of reminds me when I went to the urologist and woke up finding my penis sutured to my right leg.
Oh, the hoots and hijinx.
Posted by: mistrmind | Jun 20, 2005 6:51:31 AM
Also, if she'd had the boar's tusk when she was sexually abused she could have fought him off!
Posted by: SwarthyTroll | Jun 20, 2005 7:01:49 AM
This guy is a real jerk. How would you like it if someone did anything to you against your will while under anesthesia? Not even "pranks" are acceptible in that case. Anything you do not agree to is a violation if you are sedated like that.
Posted by: | Jun 20, 2005 7:14:41 AM
Yes, it is not a nice thing to do, but she doesn't deserve a million bucks. Rape victims don't get a million bucks, and neither do the families of murder victims. For the amount of cash she thinks she deserves you'd think her husband was incinerated on 9-11.
A fair settlement would be that the pictures are destroyed and she gets the procedure free.
Posted by: SwarthyTroll | Jun 20, 2005 7:23:36 AM
I don't blame her for suing. A health care professional should never take advantage of a patient under anesthesia, even for harmless pranks. I would be pissed if my dentist should demean me in any way while I was out.
Posted by: Oxhead | Jun 20, 2005 7:30:11 AM
If he did this to me, I think there wouldn't be a lawsuit, but merely an asskicking.
Posted by: Nick | Jun 20, 2005 7:32:23 AM
Did yall even read the article? She got $250,000 from the dentist as a settlement. The rest of the article is about the dentist suing his insurance company because they wouldn't pay to defend him in his suit with her.
The first suit was an award of $750,000 plus legel fees in favor of the dentist against the insurance company. On appeal it was overturned, so now the dentist gets nothing other than a sizeable legal bill from his lawyer.
Posted by: Nathan | Jun 20, 2005 7:42:05 AM
There once was a dentist named Woo-ey
Practical jokes is what he liked to do-ey
While his assistant was under,
With fake hog teeth he did plunder,
And when she woke up she cried 'Soo-ey!'
Posted by: Russ | Jun 20, 2005 7:44:41 AM
Russ, you're too much.
K
Posted by: | Jun 20, 2005 7:54:23 AM
I've decided not to drink my coffe in the morning when I read Russ's comments-I'm tired of cleaning my monitor when I spew coffee all over it-man, you ROCK! :-)
As to the story at hand-I can see why the woman sued. When one is under general anesthesia, one is totally helpless. What if the guy was a deviant who had sex with his patients when they were totally under?
Posted by: pnwgal | Jun 20, 2005 9:36:50 AM
Wild boars never get good media treatment.
Posted by: | Jun 20, 2005 10:08:07 AM
Think of the children!
So, does he keep the tusks in his office as a teaching aid? "We're going to drill in the left occipital cuspid, here let me show you on this grossly oversized and anatomically incorrect tooth from a wild boar..."
Posted by: | Jun 20, 2005 10:41:23 AM
I have to agree with Nick. A dark alley somewhere, and a serious can of whup-ass. That's my lawsuit settled.
Posted by: Soo | Jun 20, 2005 10:54:43 AM
Yeah, the dude is kind of a dipshit, but nobody deserves 250K for that kind of "violation". For god's sake, violate ME then.....Hell, I'll go out in public wearing tusks in a pink tutu and tights while standing on my head for 250K.
Posted by: Kung-Fu | Jun 20, 2005 3:35:21 PM
Quoting:
"What if the guy was a deviant who had sex with his patients when they were totally under?"
That's OK as long as you don't make them wear boar tusks too.
Posted by: badbadman | Jun 20, 2005 5:50:18 PM
I make jokes about my dentist all the time. He's a pretty rough guy. It doesn't matter if he's knocked out on gas at the time or whatever, I crack jokes about him. I don't think he minds, because I don't tell them to his face. Therefore it's ok for him to crack jokes about me.
Posted by: Zcott | Jun 20, 2005 6:00:42 PM
The patient was a longtime assistant of his, so she obviously knew his wacky sense of humor, and she couldn't handle this? What a frigid bitch.
Posted by: | Jun 20, 2005 6:47:59 PM
mistrmind you are hilarious...where do you come up w/your oneliners....lol
Posted by: msjstducky | Jun 20, 2005 7:24:44 PM
