A 39-year-old Gay is planning to press charges against a medical team after he saw a video from a mobile phone of his friend, a circulated video footage of the operation to extract a perfume canister stuck in his anus.
Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center Scandal
The operation on the man, who only wants to be identified as “Jan-Jan,” was done at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC), the video footage has been circulating through cell phones and was even uploaded to YouTube and other video sharing sites.
The video that runs for two minutes and 28 seconds shows an operating team of more than 10 people laughing, with someone shouting instructions while the operation was going on while the patient (Jan-Jan) was unconscious.
This is a violation in many levels:
- The doctor-patient confidentiality ethic was not followed.
- There were more than enough people in the operating room (most of them were only there to record the procedure on their phones).
- The loud, childish jeers from the crowd after the spray can was removed was a clear disrespect to the patient.
- And the doctor had the gall of telling this to the patient, as stated in the repor
