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was sedated during a colonoscopy? He had his own black box tucked
in his pants pocket. He wanted to preserve instructions his doctor
would give him after the procedure, so he hit "record" on his smart-
phone's audio recorder before surgery and tucked it in his pants
beneath a table in the GI suite. A jury awarded him $100,000 for
defamation, $200,000 for medical malpractice, and $200,000 for puni-
tive damages. An iPhone tucked in your back pocket can be just as
good as a black box hung in the OR. OSM
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