What can I say about the following article? Dont get so drunk you can have a can shoved up your ass and not remember it.
THREE doctors and a nurse will be charged and other medical staff and students cautioned after a video posted on the internet showed them laughing while removing an object from a patient.
It's believed to be the first case of surgeons breaching patient confidentiality by posting video content on the internet, prompting a huge ethical controversy in medical and legal circles.
The nearly 3-minute video of a noisy operating room shows doctors and nurses laughing, giggling and cheering as a canister is removed from a patient's rectum and was initally posted on YouTube but has since been removed.
One of the medical staff even opens the perfume canister and starts spraying its contents.
The incident also sparked condemnation from many medical groups with the Philippine Medical Association stating that if found violating their code of ethics, the doctors could be expelled from the association.
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 video has angered the patient , today identiified as Jan-jan, who said he did not know that the staff took a video of him and worse, was uploaded in YouTube, a video sharing Web site on the internet.
Jan-jan told Sun Star Cebu, a local news agency, "I trusted them. And yet they ridiculed me behind my back...Was that something a professional would do? I can't even walk the streets without being laughed at by neighbors. I want my ordeal to end. And I hope it doesn't happen to anyone else."
The 39-year-old received surgery in January, three days after a New Year's drinking spree and a "one-night stand" with a male partner. He was too drunk to remember how the body spray canister ended up in his body.
The government-run Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in the central city of Cebu, where the surgery took place, is conducting an investigation.
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, confirmed his 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.
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