Patient secretly records audio of his operation and hears doctors mocking his penis

If you were lying unconscious during an operation you wouldn’t expect your doctor to laugh at your penis and suggest you were infected with Ebola.

But that was exactly what happened to a patient in Reston, Virginia, who only found he’d been insulted because he’d set up his mobile phone to record everything while he was asleep.

Anesthesiologist Tiffany M Ingham didn’t know this and was subsequently caught making a fool of herself on a recording, the Washington Post reported.

‘After five minutes of talking to you in pre-op, I wanted to punch you in the face and man you up a little bit,’ Ms Ingham was heard saying during the colonoscopy procedure.

She wasn’t finished there.

When a medical assistant noted the man (known as ‘DB’) had a rash, the anesthesiologist warned her not to touch it, saying she might get ‘some syphilis on your arm or something,’ then added, ‘it’s probably tuberculosis in the penis, so you’ll be all right.

Gastroenterologist Soloman Shah, who was examining the patient, also got involved when he joked another doctor they both knew ‘would eat him for lunch.’

The abuse cost Ms Ingham and the practice an eye watering £318,000 after the patient successfully sued them for medical malpractice and defamation.

She’ll probably keep quiet next time