Photo snapped of patient’s genitalia during surgery

A Mayo Clinic Hospital surgeon in training used a cellphone to photograph a patient’s genitals during surgery and now may face disciplinary action and a patient’s attorney. 

Dr. Adam Hansen, chief resident of general surgery at the Phoenix hospital, admitted to Mayo administrators he snapped the photo during a Dec. 11 gallbladder surgery on patient Sean Dubowik, whose penis bears the tattooed slogan, “Hot Rod.”

After Hansen showed the photo to other members of the surgical staff, one phoned a Republic reporter on Monday and left an anonymous message about the incident.

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Hansen has been placed on administrative leave and is neither seeing nor treating patients.

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Dubowik runs a Phoenix topless bar, Centerfolds Cabaret, and said he’d gotten the tattoo on a $1,000 bet.

“It was the most horrible thing I ever went though in my life,” Dubowik said. He said he chose Mayo Clinic for treatment because his mother had five surgeries there.

“They were supposedly the best of the best. I have no complaints about the medical care I was given,” he said.

“But now I feel violated, betrayed and disgusted. I’ve never been in a hospital and (my) first experience is the worst thing ever.”

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Dubowik, who had not yet spoken to an attorney Tuesday, said he planned to contact one.

“The longer I sit here the angrier I get,” he said.

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