Doctor caught on camera laughing and cursing at a patient

we do begin this half hour with the patient accusing a doctor of some bad bedside behavior and it was all caught on camera that patient complaining the doctor was physically and verbally abusive refusing to believe he was suffering even cursing at him ABC's Marci Gonzalez is in our LA bureau with the story Marci good morning Dan Paula good morning that patient says the doctor accused him of going to the hospital in hopes of getting narcotics and that he believes is what set her off he tells us he was simply seeking treatment for what turned out to be an extreme anxiety attack and he is still baffled by what happened next this morning this emergency room doctor banned from working in this Northern California hospital after she was caught on camera mocking and cursing at one of her patients I knew from when she said something to the security guard I already knew from that point I said hey Dad can you please take out your phone I need you to take out your phone now because I have a feeling something's gonna happen if I could get up off this chair Samuel Bardwell says he was rushed by ambulance to El Camino Hospital after collapsing during basketball practice Monday after waiting more than three hours to be seen I'm sorry sir you were the least sick of all the people who are here who are dying he says he told the doctor he was numb in extreme pain and having trouble breathing I just tried to inhale and I even told her I cannot inhale I don't understand you are breathing jumping this is not barred well tells ABC from there the tension with dr. Bethke 'extra escalated unprovoked no you have changed your story every time whoa the hospital CEO saying in a statement that the physicians demeanor was unprofessional and not the standard we require of all who provide care through El Camino Hospital we have expressed our sincere apologies and are working directly with the patient on this matter in my mind I don't think she should be practicing medicine at all because if it's not a race thing and she everybody that way then that's a problem and the CEO of the hospital group went on to say the doctor will never be allowed to work at any branches of the hospital group again we have not been able to reach the doctor for comment meanwhile Bardwell says he plans to file a lawsuit dan and Paula back to you Marcie thank you hi everyone George Stephanopoulos here thanks for checking out the ABC News YouTube channel if you'd like to get more videos show highlights and watch live event coverage click on the right over here to subscribe to our Channel and don't forget to download the ABC News app for breaking news alerts thanks for watching

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Keywords: doctor, laughing, and, cursing, at, patient, narcotics

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Length: 2min 50sec (170 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 17 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/[deleted]]

Wow, that’s absolutely awful. He collapsed at basketball practice, waited 3 hours to be seen, and she was belittling him in front of his Dad. “Oh, you can’t breath? You must be dead!”

[u/Kiraraye]

I thought it was a dude until they said "she". Whoops.

[u/[deleted]]

There are a lot of asshole doctors.

[u/sageberrytree]

Honestly, this is how drs treat women too much of the time.

I can't tell you how many times I've heard it's in my head.

Despite objective testing, and the opinion of multiple specialists.

Now, I've also had incredible Drs. (One when I was pregnant and could not keep anything down. Please may I have some zofran and fluids so I can just live)

But many, many Drs are suffering from compassion fatigue, or are simply misogynistic asshats.

[u/SortaBeta]

My entire family is in the medical field and from their dinner stories make these sorts of things seem like a regular occurrence.

[u/betsycrocker]

ER lacks professionalism. I started having seizures when my husband and I woke up one morning. He got me to the ER. Before they even put a blood pressure cuff on me must less examined me, they told him I was a meth addict and it was from that. When I got out of ICU, this 60 y/o raised some kinda hell! We were pissed! How about looking for the real issue.

[u/Sassy_Cheese_Cake]

Without watching a sec of the video, i guess the patient is either african american, a woman or both.

[u/TraceOfHumanity]

Pops, it’s still a problem if her behavior is based on racism. She’s a problem, period.

[u/WheelyCrazyCatLady]

I've had this from nurses, doctors and even my own parents. Apparently all my pain and joint dislocations (and the other stuff like the reflux, fainting, vomiting, fatigue, sleepwalking etc etc) was all faked for attention. Even my hip pain and dislocations were faked even though I had congenital hip dislocation and severe hip dysplasia diagnosed at birth and untreated.

Thanks to all of them it took me 27 years to get my conditions diagnosed and it makes me very anxious when I need to see a doctor for help, so much that I've learned to fix all my joint dislocations myself and become very independent with my care and treatments, even fully managing my feeding tube only hours after it was put in. I was in hospital but I couldn't bare them faffing with it, I've got no confidence in any medical professionals thanks to how I was treated by them earlier in my life.

I still encounter a few drs like this but they can't affect my care now I have definite diagnoses. It sucks that others have to deal with this, it's awful having no one believe you