Two nurses in Lake Geneva, Washington have been fired from their jobs at Mercy Walworth Medical Center for allegedly photographing a patient and posting the pictures on the Internet. Why, you might ask, did these women take a photo of a patient and place it on the Internet? Because the patient happened to be a man with a sex device stuck up his rectum, and the picture was an X-ray.
If you don’t see the humor, don’t worry — neither did the Walworth County Sheriff’s Department. An investigation was launched after the nurses’ coworker made an anonymous call alerting the Sheriff’s Department that a nurse took pictures of a patient with her cell phone and posted them on her Facebook page. “There were two nurses that independently took a picture each of an X-ray of a patient,” Walworth County Undersheriff Kurt Picknell said.
According to police, the patient had been admitted to the emergency room with an unknown object wedged in his rectum. When the nurse was questioned, she explained that she and a co-worker had taken the photos at the center of the matter once they realized the object was in fact a sex toy. The police discovered discussion of the photo and incident on the nurse’s Facebook page, but the actual image itself was not posted.
Further investigation by local police has not turned up the photo, and no witnesses have come forward in the case. The nurse has since deleted her Facebook account, and Picknell has referred the case to the FBI. “We’ve notified federal authorities of this allegation to see if there are federal violations, most notably HIPAA violations, patient rights,” he said.
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