The Annals of Internal Medicine is supposed to report important medical findings that can save lives.  They must have had a slow month, because instead they reported a ridiculous story about surgeons who made crude jokes about their patients who were unconscious on the operating table.

If you were freaked out by the news in June that an anesthesiologist had talked trash about her patient while he was unconscious on the table in front of her, you'd better brace yourself. There's more and it's worse. So much worse.

Much worse!  Brace yourself; are you sitting down?  Take a deep breath, and try to remain calm:

In an anonymous essay published in the Annals of Internal Medicine this week, one physician describes — in graphic detail — what happened to two women when they were asleep in operating rooms. The stories are horrifying.

"I bet she's enjoying this," one doctor reportedly said while prepping a woman for a vaginal hysterectomy. In another case, an obstetrician performed an obscene dance after saving the life of a woman who was bleeding out after having a baby.

An obscene dance!  The WaPo is right.  This story is horrifying, on the level of ISIS burning people alive in Iraq or shooting an RPG at a car filled with people in Syria.  Why should women's groups demonstrate against the rape and murder of women in the Middle East when situations like this exist to be remedied?

Are these comments and dance moves inappropriate and boorish?  Obviously.  But the patients weren't even aware of them, and no one was harmed.  You would think a medical journal would have more important things to write about affecting, you know, health.

What's alarming about this story is that it shows that political correctness is invading the health field as much as anywhere else.  Already health practitioners have been silenced concerning the dangers of gay sex and the sham of "sex change operations."  As more and more political correctness permeates the medical field, I worry that our ability to get accurate medical advice will be impaired.  At the very least, doctors who should be focused on finding cures to illnesses will be diverted to this PC inanity, in much the same way real scientists who could be making real discoveries are diverted to study imaginary global warming. That's why this ridiculous story is so disturbing.

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