NEW YORK — A construction worker claimed in a lawsuit claiming that when he went to a hospital after being hit on the forehead by a falling wooden beam, emergency room staffers forcibly gave him a rectal examination.Brian Persaud, 38, says in court papers that after he denied a request by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital emergency room employees to examine his rectum, he was "assaulted, battered and falsely imprisoned."
His lawyer, Gerrard M. Marrone, said he and Persaud later learned the exam was one way of determining whether he had suffered spinal damage in the accident.
Thirty-eight? Wait a couple more years, son, and your doctor will be doing that once a year. And you'll be damn glad of it when you think about the alternatives.
The justice who denied the hospital's motion to dismiss needs to be removed from the bench. And the lawyer needs to be reprimanded.
