Filipino Doctors Making A Name For Themselves

An artist's rendition of the operating
room at Vicente Sotto Memorial
Medical Center in Cebu.The big news in The Philippines today is that regarding an operating room team that let in several unauthorized hospital personnel to join in a bit of laughing and cavorting during a surgery in which the surgeon removed a foreign object from a gay man's rectum. Blasting patient privacy laws (are there any in The PI?) straight out of the water, the operation (and joke-making and O.R. horseplay) was filmed and put on YouTube.

Just to add insult to injury, the Catholic Church had to open it's mouth right at the time when some pious silence might have been a more... uh... Christian approach. Said Monsignor Achilles Dakay, spokesman of the archdiocese of Cebu:

"They are blaming the doctors for what they do but I think they should blame the guy for what he did."

Yes: The hospital staff jokes and horseplays around in the operating room, violates every medical ethic and legal standard and generally makes a mockery of the Filipino medical profession, and all the Catholic church can think about... the only thing they can focus on... the only thing that they want to pin the blame on... and the only thing they want people to remember... is the sodomite.

Jeez. I could go on a rant for hours about this.