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Surgeon slapped patients on rear-end; left handprints
Surgeon 'slapped sleeping patients on their rear ends so hard that he left hand prints'
- Michael Clarke, 47, 'insulted his anesthetized patients and wound his arm up before slapping them across the backsides'
- He claimed he slapped the patients to see if the spinal anesthesia was working - but staff said they had never seen another doctor do this
- Clarke, an orthopedic surgeon who specializes in hip replacements, also 'discussed graphic sexual acts with staff in the operating room'
- The Syracuse hospital also faces repercussions 'for doing nothing when his behavior was reported'
- Clarke is also being investigated for possible criminal conduct
Investigation: Michael Clarke, an orthopedic surgeon, allegedly slapped the buttocks of patients after he put them under anesthetic - but claimed he was simply checking to see if the anesthetic had worked
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An orthopedic surgeon often slapped anesthetized patients on the buttocks so hard that he left red marks or hand prints, according to a federal complaint.
Michael Clarke, 47, also allegedly insulted some of his patients, calling them 'fat [expletive]', and discussed graphic sexual acts with staff in the operating room, witnesses told investigators.
It says that 11 members of staff told investigators that Clarke sometimes slapped the patients, while eight of these also said he used sexually explicit language.
One worked said the doctors would 'almost wind up' before slapping a patient.
But Clarke said he was simply doing his job, according to the report, which names him 'Physician #1.'
'Physician #1 explained it was how he/she checked for the adequacy of the patient's spinal anesthesia,' it says.
'All 11 staff indicated they had never seen another physician use the slap method to check the adequacy of a spinal and that Physician #1 did not slap all hip replacement patients.'
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Plus surgeons are the last persons you want to work. They are all cold-hearted. But he's too much
