A doctor gingerly pulls out the 6-inch long canister from the male patient's rectum... someone shouts, "Baby out!" amid loud cheers.
A 3 minute unauthorized video of a rectal surgery was uploaded in youtube. But was removed last Wednesday due to controversial issues regarding client's safety , privacy and confidentiality.
The patient who is a 39 year old florist of Basak-Pardo, Cebu City was horrified to find out that he was the one in the video circulating in the internet. He claimed he was drunk during the incident and realized only the following morning that a foreign object had been left in his rectum after having sexual contact with a stranger on New Year's Eve.
He went to the government-run VSMMC, the largest government hospital in Central Visayas, and underwent a rectal surgery on Jan. 3. He said he was sedated and did not know that the procedure was being recorded with a cellular phone camera.
Ehical, Legal and Moral Issues : Right to Privacy and Confidentiality
*The posting of the video in the Internet violated several provisions of the Patients Bill of Rights, including the right to be free from unwarranted publicity, right to confidentiality and to good quality health care and professional standards.
*Capturing still images or videos is an invasion of patient's rights to privacy unless of course, the patient has signed a consent that will allow it to happen.
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