Apr
22
When you go to the hospital you
don't expect your visit to be videotaped and released on YouTube. This is especially true when
you're there to remove a 6 inch spray
canister from your bum. But that's what happened in the Philippines when a male patient was
operated on to dislodge the foreign object from his love canal.
After a three-minute video appeared on YouTube, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III
ordered an investigation into a group of unnamed doctors and a nurse, who were filmed on January 3
"laughing, giggling and cheering" as they freed the paint canister.
When the spray paint was removed, one person announced "Baby out!"
The hospital acknowledged that "some acts (caught on video) were already in violation of some
hospital policies."
The 39-year-old patient's lawyer, Guiller Ceniza, said: "We are not satisfied with the
proceedings conducted by the hospital. All the while we thought that they were conducting an
administrative proceeding... to impose sanctions but what turned out was merely a fact-finding
inquiry."
The whole ordeal started with a New Year's Eve drinking binge, but the patient claims he was
"too drunk to remember how [it] ended up in his body."
He only realized it was there after a series of colorful farts ...
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