If we could go anywhere in the world and
feel safe to express our concerns it should be the hospital. When we are sick
or wounded the hospital is our safe haven to get the proper help we need not to
be ridiculed and embarrassed. Never in million years would we believe that a
hospital, well a staff member would violate our rights in anyway but it
happened to innocent women in Chicago who sough for help. She entrusted a
doctor and he violated her rights and that is an issue that is not acceptable.
Elena Chemyakova is an inspiring actress
who one night did not know her limit and got drunk. She got too drunk and had
to be taken to the emergency room seeking medical attention. Sick and not
knowing what to do she called a mutual friend whom was also at the hospital
whom is a doctor doing a fellowship for the School of Medicine. The doctor
whose name is Vinava Puppala took pictures of the women while she was drunk and
posted it to social sites. A doctor who took an oath to privacy for its
patients, deliberately took pictures of the women and posted it on instagram
and Facebook with hash tags.
The victim who has no family in Chicago
because all of her family is in Russia trusted in the mutual friend for help.
They became friends of Facebook through other friends and even though they
never met face to face often spoke of Facebook. She trusted the doctor and felt
comfortable to ask for his assistance because she was never in the situation.
She never expected for him to take it too far exposing her online. Many people
she did not know saw her in that fragile condition.
The doctor continuously made fun of her,
while taking pictures of her with an IV in her arm passed out and uploaded them
to the Internet. The security guard even asked him to stop and delete the
pictures but he did not do such thing. He continued to show the pictures to
friends after at a local rooftop across the street while the patient was
recovering at the hospital. He felt the need to continuously embarrass her and
degrade her character for his need of entertainment, she was suffering from
alcohol poisoning and he is enjoying her turmoil. The victim was not even aware
of the pictures until friends began to contact her about the picture.
Even after the incident the doctor had
the pictures on his phone even after the security officer asked him to take
them down and delete them. People online were referring to her as “Hospital
Girl “. It is not okay what this doctor
did and he needs to pay. She is currently suing the hospital for 1.5 million
dollars letting the message aware it is not acceptable to post pictures of patients
for their entertainment. It could have been anything no one has the right to do
such thing to anybody. It is time for someone to step up, because it could have
been anyone.
Do you believe that the doctor should be
penalized or do you feel the girl is overreacting?
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