Satan

A 39-year-old homosexual is planning to sue a medical team after he saw in a cellular phone of a friend last Friday a circulated video footage of the operation to extract a perfume canister stuck in his anus during a sexual act.

The operation on the man, who only wants to be identified as “Jan-Jan,” was done at the hospital last Jan. 3 yet, but the video footage has been circulating through cell phones since then and was even uploaded in the video-sharing web site, YouTube.

“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,” Jan-Jan told the newspaper.

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.

It captures individuals with mobile phones and cameras taking footage of the operation. A brief panning motion shows some of the faces of the people involved in the procedure.

Loud cheering and shouting can be heard as the canister that someone describes as a “baby” is slowly pulled out of the anus. One of the staff even opens the perfume and sprays it around.

All the time, the patient whose face is not visible in the video, is unconscious.

Probe

The hospital spokesperson, said a committee that has been looking into the case since before the Holy Week is still “wrapping” up its probe and may come up with a recommendation this week or early next week.

“I can’t elaborate on the investigation as it is not yet on official paper. So let’s just wait. After the video came out, we enforced stricter implementation of policies such as the prohibition of cameras inside the operating room,” he said.

There are “***e” cases though that may be documented but should be “balanced” with patient-doctor confidentiality, he said.

Gines admitted there were also nursing students involved.

“We already informed the schools and there were sanctions separately done by those schools,” he said.

He said Jan-Jan’s doctor and the others involved in the operation are still employed at the hospital, pending result of the investigation.

Department of Health (DOH) 7 officer-in-charge said that there should be respect for human dignity.

“The patient-doctor confidentiality is part of the code of ethics of a medical practitioner. The patient has the right to privacy,” she said.

Salarda explained that she could not yet comment on the issue because the health agency is waiting for the complaint to be submitted to them.

“From interviewing the patient or complainant concerned, we can assess the jurisdiction of DOH on the matter,” she said, adding that DOH is more on licensing medical institutions according to service capability, equipment, physical plant, and personnel.

Salarda said they will coordinate with the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) and the Civil Service Commission on what to do once they get the patient’s complaint.

PRC 7 officer-in-charge Dan Malayang said they can investigate the matter once they get the complaint. They can also reprimand those involved or suspend or revoke their licenses if proven guilty, he added.

Lesson

“People trust their doctors. The behavior as shown in the video is unfair to other doctors who religiously follow their oath and they are destroying the reputation of government service,” Tumulak said.

When he saw the footage, Jan-Jan knew he was the patient from the brand and color of the spray canister. His family also recognized that it was him.

He said that the only reason he came forward was to teach doctors, nurses and nursing students a lesson.

Jan-Jan is the sixth in the family of eight siblings.

He admitted that last Dec. 31, he had sex with a man who ended up “making fun” of him. The following day, he woke up to a pain in his rectal area and below the stomach, prompting him for a physical check-up at the hospital.

After laboratory tests showed a spray canister up his anus, the doctor advised him to get an operation to have it taken out.

The patient recalled signing a paper without being properly informed about it and of asking the doctor to only allow members of the operating team inside the room.

“He only laughed. It was very humiliating.

Before losing consciousness from the anesthesia, he remembered someone tying his hands to the bedpost because he was so noisy and restless.

YouTube

On Jan. 5, when Jan-Jan was scheduled to be released, his doctor approached him and asked if he wanted to earn money by uploading the video taken during his operation on YouTube. Ashamed with what had happened, he refused.

The video was reportedly uploaded on YouTube last February.

When he also asked for a complete copy of his medical records, Jan-Jan was not given any because he was told they were used for a medical case study.

What he has and what he showed is a copy of a medical form that was issued by his doctor for a follow-up checkup with a psychiatrist last Jan. 18.

Jan-Jan failed to see the psychiatrist because he could not locate the office.

He also showed the discharge order from his doctor.

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Hospital official to patient: Sorry

UNETHICAL and scandalous.

That’s how several doctors described the behavior of the doctors and nurses during the operation to remove a perfume canister from the anus of a male patient.

Doctors involved in the operation were seen laughing boisterously during the operation, which was recorded on video. A video clip was later uploaded to the video sharing website YouTube.

The liaison officer and emergency room department head, said in a radio interview that they will apologize to the 39-year-old patient identified only as Jan-jan because of the embarrassment he suffered.

At least six doctors, are being investigated. He could not say how many nurses were placed under investigation.

A five-member body tasked to look into the controversy is expected to release its findings this Friday.

Isolated case

A surgeon, said that taking a video and laughing at a patient while he is being operated on is inappropriate.

“On the question of the behavior of the doctors and nurses, it was really improper,” he said.

He said their investigation began even before the scandal came out in the media because the hospital leadership is concerned about the incident. He urged the media to just wait for the committee’s report.

While admitting that the incident placed the hospital in a bad light, Gines assured the public that what happened to “Jan-Jan” was an isolated case that will not occur again.

“We have enforced and strengthened our (privacy) policy as far as the operating room and anywhere of the sections in the hospitals after this incident, especially the banning of cellular phones with or without cameras,” he said.

In a separate interview, the police captian said Jan-Jan is bent on filing a complaint and has already executed an affidavit against the doctors and nurses, some of whom were shown in the video.

Jan-Jan will also complain before the Department of Health (DOH), the Professional Regulations Commission.

A neuro-surgeon for 30 years connected with the hospital, said doctors are bound by their profession to respect the patient’s privacy.

Sacred

“For us, that (privacy) is sacred. No doctor or nurse shall announce that somebody is suffering from an illness or that somebody is positive of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome),”.

An Emergency Rescue Unit Foundation member, said that it is really objectionable for somebody to take videos of an operation and upload it to YouTube for all the world to see.

What is acceptable, he said, is for a doctor operating on a patient to allow young doctors and nurses to witness, as long as the aim is to educate them further.

Non-resident doctors and nurses who are not on field duty are not even allowed to witness an operation.

Conference

In his case, he said, he only allows neuro-surgeons to witness him treating his patients if it concerns their profession.

As of press time last night, Jan-Jan and his lawyer were still having a conference to come up with an airtight complaint.

Jan-Jan is demanding for the hospital to furnish him the official records of the Jan. 3 operation for easy identification of all doctors and nurses involved.

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GC

probably needed to spray something after that .... how would anyone recognize him ... I never saw his face.

thapie

geez there are always more horror stories everytime you turn around,this one it really out there !

Stiph

A bit of a twist on this joke I've heard...

Q: If you woke up alone with a hangover and your ass was sore, would you tell anyone?
A: Want to go to a New Year's Eve party?