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A Doctor Performing Surgery While On Cocaine.#453 Part 3

Docs Outside The Box

Dr. Nii Darko

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4.9516 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! We analyze public reaction to news of a urologist testing positive for cocaine while performing surgeries. The social media comments revealed a plot twist with most of the public claiming that substance abuse is commonplace among medical professionals. FREE DOWNLOAD - 7 Considerations Before Starting Locum Tenens - https://darkos.lpages.co/7-considerations-before-locums LINKS MENTIONED&nbsp...

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0:00.0

I guess my question is exactly what Jackademic asked is, why are you here?

0:07.8

You know, like, I'm not mad that you want to do things a different way.

0:12.8

But what is very curious is, why are you here fighting with me when you don't have to?

0:20.4

Like, you know you don't have to be here.

0:22.8

Not only is there issues among patients questioning us. There's even issues among our own

0:28.5

colleagues where you have your own colleagues who are questioning vaccines and certain

0:33.9

that we do have. It's a major problem because I've seen that. I've seen that if you have one person on and they believe certain things that are specifically related to like anti-vax or anti-establishment type things. You bring that up to a patient. That person goes off service. You come on and you talk about tried and true practices, standards of care and all these different things. Now all of a sudden, they don't trust you.

0:55.8

That scares me more than a patient coming in and just refusing to get care, actually.

1:00.6

We've got some news about a Houston doctor being suspended after he allegedly was found to test positive for cocaine while he was performing surgery.

1:13.1

Yeah.

1:13.5

Words at you.

1:14.2

Yeah.

1:14.5

So this doctor, I don't want to say his name.

1:17.3

I don't think he needs to have his name out there, but it's already out there.

1:19.8

But his doctor, basically urologist performing surgery while on cocaine.

1:25.8

And it's crazy.

1:27.6

It's all over the news.

1:29.0

I have a lot of different thoughts on this from obviously the first thing is patient safety.

1:38.2

Also to, you know, how we treat surgeons or how we treat doctors in general who have substance abuse.

1:45.7

Substance abuse issues also, right? And for me, I'll always land on the side of you got to make sure

1:51.4

that things are safe for your colleagues and you also make sure that things are safe for the patients.

1:56.8

This crazy. But basically showing, if I, explain the story to me first because I think you showed the story

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