House, is that you?
Blunt doctor gets in trouble
BY SARAH AVERY - Staff Writer
RALEIGH -- Dr. Earl Sunderhaus, an Asheville eye doctor, has what might charitably be described as a brusque bedside manner.
That much is not in dispute.
But the N.C. Medical Board may decide Sunderhaus overstepped the bounds of decency when he recently told a patient she was irresponsible for being unemployed, on Medicaid, and relying on taxpayers to cover another pregnancy after giving birth less than a year earlier. What really galled her, the patient complained, is that Sunderhaus poked her thigh and told her she is fat.
"When I got home I was very upset about the way I was treated by him," the patient wrote in a private complaint to the board. Efforts to contact the patient were not successful.
Sunderhaus, who describes himself as a plain-spoken old German, escalated the conflict by writing the patient to drive home his points using numbered paragraphs and signing it "sincerely."
~linkage
Ok, ok, I'll admit I laughed at the idea of dude writing her a letter and signing it sincerely. Like really? That's fucked up, but it's kinda funny. That said, two thoughts come to mind:
1. Hugh Laurie should use this guy for taking his persona.
2. I really hope he loses his license. WTF
Actually three thoughts. 3. I know doctors that while not quite as vile as this dude are mad crass in a similar way. I'm glad this is being highlighted. Because it's not ok.
BY SARAH AVERY - Staff Writer
RALEIGH -- Dr. Earl Sunderhaus, an Asheville eye doctor, has what might charitably be described as a brusque bedside manner.
That much is not in dispute.
But the N.C. Medical Board may decide Sunderhaus overstepped the bounds of decency when he recently told a patient she was irresponsible for being unemployed, on Medicaid, and relying on taxpayers to cover another pregnancy after giving birth less than a year earlier. What really galled her, the patient complained, is that Sunderhaus poked her thigh and told her she is fat.
"When I got home I was very upset about the way I was treated by him," the patient wrote in a private complaint to the board. Efforts to contact the patient were not successful.
Sunderhaus, who describes himself as a plain-spoken old German, escalated the conflict by writing the patient to drive home his points using numbered paragraphs and signing it "sincerely."
~linkage
Ok, ok, I'll admit I laughed at the idea of dude writing her a letter and signing it sincerely. Like really? That's fucked up, but it's kinda funny. That said, two thoughts come to mind:
1. Hugh Laurie should use this guy for taking his persona.
2. I really hope he loses his license. WTF
Actually three thoughts. 3. I know doctors that while not quite as vile as this dude are mad crass in a similar way. I'm glad this is being highlighted. Because it's not ok.