Surgeons Busted for Rectal Spray-Can Removal Video

by jordan | April 19, 2008 at 10:20 am | 1168 views | 5 comments

Surgeons and medical staff in Cebu, Phillipines are in the hot-seat after a video of them removing a spran can from a patient's rectum was circulated on the Internet.

Beyond the generally unprofessional conduct depicted in the grainy video, viewers can see a surgeon pointing a phonecam at the patient as the procedure is conducted: such conduct is, funnily enough, not allowed. The original video went to Youtube and spread like wildfire, with versions springing up across the web as quickly as moderators could remove them.

The following link has somewhat graphic video.

A video posted on the internet showing Philippine doctors laughing while removing an object from a patient may lead to charges against the surgeons and cost them their medical licenses, officials said Wednesday.

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 the 6-inch long canister from the male patient's rectum, someone shouts, "Baby out!" amid loud cheers.

The doctor then removes the canister cap and sprays the contents toward the crowd of nurses and doctors viewing the procedure.

The video has angered the unidentified patient who plans to press charges, his lawyer Guiller Ceniza said Wednesday.

The government-run Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in the central city of Cebu, where the surgery took place, is conducting an investigation, a spokesman said Wednesday.

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.

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Barry Artiste

at 10:32 on April 19th, 2008

good stuff:

jordan, I like this story. It's good stuff. You just knew somehow, somewhere I would comment on this wouldn't you Jordan.

God, to Gag so early in the morning

http://www.truveo.com/Saturday-Night-Live-Appalachian-Emergency-Room/id/2758451801

jordan

at 10:51 on April 19th, 2008

Yeah, I almost didn't post this.

Almost.

(Had that 2nd surgeon not held out the phonecam, we wouldn't know right away if the surgeons were violating the filming rule)

Barry Artiste

at 10:54 on April 19th, 2008

I am glad you did, sort of like a SNL Applachian Emergency Ward Skit

eastvanray

at 17:47 on April 23rd, 2008

WTF? What is it with gay men and shoving huge unsafe foreign objects up their asses? Maybe if this video were posted on Youtube others might think twice before attempting something this dumb and wasting the time of doctors and operating rooms. I can just hear it....."I am sorry mam but your husband's heart attack will have to wait until the doctor gets this 6" can out of some dude's ass."