When you undergo surgery, you expect your doctor to do everything in their power to ensure you get the best care and treatment possible.
Unfortunately for Ethel Easter, her experience was the opposite.
Easter’s concern started when her doctor was rude to her when she questioned why she had wait two months to have hernia surgery to treat what she described as “stabbing pains every time she ate”.
“I was like, ‘I can’t wait for two months. I’m terribly ill’, and he said, ‘Listen’ — he got very abrupt. He said ‘Who do you think you are? You have to wait just like everybody else’,” the Texas resident told Fox 28 news.
Unable to change doctors due to her health insurance plan, Easter felt like she had no choice but to stick with the surgeon, despite feeling uncomfortable in his care.
“I was afraid that if I didn’t make it [through surgery] nobody would know why, and I wanted them to know it was because he didn’t care about me as a person,” she told Yahoo! Beauty.
Easter decided to take matters into her own hands and hid a small recording device in her hair extensions to record the surgeon and his team during her operation.
Listening back to their conversation afterwards, Easter was shocked to hear several disgusting comments made about her while she was under anesthetic.
“She’s a handful. She had some choice words for us in the clinic when we didn’t book her case in two weeks,” the surgeon is heard saying to another male in the room. “I’m going to call a lawyer and file a complaint,” he continues before laughing.
