Sutter Health is under fire after a viral TikTok video showed urgent care staff in Santa Barbara posing with what appeared to be bodily fluids left behind after patient exams, calling them "gifts."
The original post was deleted quickly, but not before it spread across the internet. Dozens of users recorded the video, stitched it and reposted it across TikTok and other platforms.
Outraged users flooded TikTok, Reddit and Yelp with comments condemning the video as disrespectful and damaging to patient trust.
One Yelp user, Joey Boreta, said the video shook his confidence in medical providers.
"I had a doctor’s appointment today, and even though I trust who I was seeing, it was in the back of my mind what Sutter Health had done," he said.
Sutter Health said it launched an immediate inve