Philippines: Even ass holes have privacy rights

This is from the Boston Herald. They should have left the event unrecorded except in memory for reproduction as my funniest operation stories.

Laughter not best medicine

By Associated Press |MANILA, Philippines - It probably seemed like fun at the time. In surgery to remove a spray can from a patient’s rectum, the docs and a nurse were yukking it up.

The laugh riot was videotaped, and a nursing student observing the procedure was so impressed with their work that she posted the video on YouTube.

Now the joke’s on them.

Health Secretary Francisco Duque III ordered an investigation and the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu, where the rowdy giggle-fest operation took place Jan. 3, recommended penalties ranging from reprimands to dismissals for violating ethical standards. Health officials will consider the recommendations.

The 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 a 6-inch-long body spray canister from the male patient’s rectum, someone shouts, “Baby out!” amid loud cheers. The doctor then gleefully sprays a crowd of nurses and doctors.

A fourth doctor and three other nurses were “sternly warned,” and an instructor who supervised a group of observing nursing students is now banned from the hospital. A nursing student is suspected of posting the video on YouTube.

The patient went into surgery three days after a New Year’s drinking spree and a “one-night stand” with a male partner, but claimed to be too drunk to remember how the body spray canister was misplaced.

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