Posted on 04/16/2008 2:50:27 PM PDT by SmithL
MANILA, Philippines - A video posted on YouTube showing Philippine doctors laughing while removing an object from a patient may lead to charges against the surgeons and cost them their medical licenses, officials said Wednesday.
The unauthorized nearly 3-minute video of a noisy operating room shows doctors and nurses laughing, giggling and cheering.
At one point, a hand appears with a cell phone camera taking a close-up picture of the surgery.
As a doctor gingerly pulls out the 6-inch long canister from the male patient's rectum, someone shouts, "Baby out!" amid loud cheers.
The doctor then removes the canister cap and sprays the contents toward the crowd of nurses and doctors viewing the procedure.
It remains unclear who shot the video and who posted it on YouTube, but the person who posted it removed it from the Web site Wednesday.
The video has angered the unidentified patient who plans to press charges, his lawyer Guiller Ceniza said Wednesday.
The government-run Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in the central city of Cebu, where the surgery took place, is conducting an investigation, a spokesman said Wednesday.
Dr. Emmanuel Gines said more than 10 people were involved including staff and medical and nursing students from a nearby operating room.
He said the hospital takes videos of surgeries of peculiar cases, but only with the consent of the patient.
Dr. Jose Sabili, president of the Philippine Medical Association, told The Associated Press on Wednesday the group will conduct an investigation if a formal complaint is filed and doctors found violating medical ethics could be suspended or expelled from the association, which would result in the suspension or termination of their state health insurance accreditation.
The results of the investigation could also be used by the Professional Regulations Commission to suspend or revoke their licenses, Sabili said.
"I believe what they did was very blatant," he said.
Health Undersecretary Alexander Padilla said the Health Department will conduct a separate investigation.
The 39-year-old patient received surgery on Jan. 3, three days after a New Year's drinking spree and a "one-night stand" with a male partner, Ceniza, the lawyer, told the AP.
He said his client was too drunk to remember how the body spray canister ended up in his body.
Ceniza said the man was determined to file charges but will wait for the results of the hospital's investigation, expected later in the week.
I call BS. How in the world did this guy take a dump during that time?
This guy’s lawyers are going to open up a can of whoop ass on the hospital.
Removed a what? While I am really curious, I'm not going to ask how they got there.
And men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is sick and perverted, therefore receiving in themselves just payment for their degenerate behavior. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not really stupid, unnatural and perverted.
Frankly, most of these insertion accomplishments are nearly beyond belief to normal folks. I imagine he felt pretty lousy, but managed to pass it around the vibrator, at least enough to keep going.
The amazing thing is the ingenuity and perseverance displayed by these people in their drive to shove stuff where the sun don’t shine.
Your post is absolute proof of Romans chapter one verses 19-32.
We have close friends who are a doctor and nurse couple. The tales of the morbidly obese in the hospital get ugly, quick. It’s a real problem for modern hospitals, just from a pure materials-handling standpoint, let alone the actual medical issues.
He won't be unidentified for long.
What an idiot. He has no problem with engaging in that kind of behavior, probably in front of other people.
You reap what you sow. Act like an idiot and people will treat you like one.
AMEN!
No one who isn't a surgical professional would ever survive and would be scandalized at the perceived lack of sensitivity. It takes desensitization, however, to plunge a “knife” into someone's chest and wade elbow deep to take the means necessary to effect a healthy body.
The only mistake here is that the patient wasn't in on the “joke”.
Why do you think he ended up in the emergency room operating table?
Six months’ worth of constipation?!?
The 39-year-old patient received surgery on Jan. 3, three days after a New Year's drinking spree and a "one-night stand" with a male partner, Ceniza, the lawyer, told the AP.
No, three days.
With a toddler with severe asthma, we’re in the hospital more often than I’d like. I’ve written quite a bit of medical horror while waiting in the ER, too. (Some of it even published.)
Buzzard and Waxman reported the removal of a plastic vibrator from the rectum of a 65-year-old man who had had it in his rectum for 6 months and even traveled around the world with it.(16)
You are so right. There is a high degree of burnout in some fields of medicine. Many use humor to defuse the stress. It doesn’t mean the patient isn’t getting good care. However what this article describes went too far.
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