Oral surgeon Robert Woo may have pulled off the ultimate practical joke. He stuck fake boar tusks in a patient’s mouth while she was sedated, took pictures, and later, after she sued, he convinced the state Supreme Court HE deserves $750,000 for being abandoned by his insurance company.
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This could happen in USA only! The dentist was a very stupid man who did something quite stupid! But sue him for it, that was stupid too. [shaking head in disbelief] But most stupid of it all was making the insurance company pay for his stupidness!
It begs the question "why?" It doesn't make sense. But maybe that is a reason to include it.
I agree that his prank was a mistake. To sue over it is wrong and misguided. To make the insurance company pay for stupidity is a classic piece of Americana.
Another miscarriage of the American "justice system." It was stupid of th edentist to do what he did, reasonable of the assistant to sue the dentist, and reasonable of the insurance company not to cover him. Malpractice insurance is supposed to cover the practitioner for accidents and problems that occur during or as a result of treatment. This cannot be considered treatment by any stretch of the imagination.
No. This man is licensed to provide professional and ethical dental treatment. It may have been a 'prank' but it was violating the trust the public has placed in him. I have worked with a woman that had a pot-bellied pig that she adored and always talked about, and the image of her with boar's teeth in her mouth is extremely funny to me. However, if she entrusts me to put her under sedation (which I am legally able to), she trusts me to do the procedure, and only the procedure which she needs. She did not agree to go under sedation and let me do other things for my amusement. Would anyone out there let people put them under anesthesia and do to them whatever they wanted? This is an example of malpractice and unethical behavior. The dentist should have lost his license and lost any lawsuit. The professional liability insurance policies never cover activity that is not in the realm of 'professional' activity, and this was not professional activity, i.e. it is not acceptable dental therapy. The judicial system that thinks otherwise is simply incompetent or flawed.