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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080416/ap_on_he_me/philippines_surgery_video

MANILA, Philippines - A video posted on YouTube 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 unauthorized 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.

It remains unclear who shot the video and who posted it on YouTube, but the person who posted it removed it from the Web site Wednesday.

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.

Dr. Jose Sabili, president of the Philippine Medical Association, told The Associated Press on Wednesday the group will conduct an investigation if a formal complaint is filed and doctors found violating medical ethics could be suspended or expelled from the association, which would result in the suspension or termination of their state health insurance accreditation.

The results of the investigation could also be used by the Professional Regulations Commission to suspend or revoke their licenses, Sabili said.

"I believe what they did was very blatant," he said.

Health Undersecretary Alexander Padilla said the Health Department will conduct a separate investigation.

The 39-year-old patient received surgery on Jan. 3, three days after a New Year's drinking spree and a "one-night stand" with a male partner, Ceniza, the lawyer, told the AP.

He said his client was too drunk to remember how the body spray canister ended up in his body.

Ceniza said the man was determined to file charges but will wait for the results of the hospital's investigation, expected later in the week.

Fuck that guy, it's hilarious.

A friend of mine in college told how her stepdad went to the emergency room because her mom had shoved a plastic dixie cup up his ass, then it collapsed into shards pointing outward.  His new nickname was Dixie Cup.

Having a friend who is an xray tech, I can assure you that there is plenty of laughing at the hospital about what people get stuck up thier asses. Just not in front of patients or video taped...

Apparently, it's pretty much a regular emergency room occurance.

One in a million doc, one in a million.

There are worse things you can find stuck in you after a night of drinking. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7353025.stm) (sfw)

Damn it, you beat me to it.

But I have visual aids!

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Anyone who thinks that surgeons don't have banter, and joke at the expense of their patients is naive.

Any doctor who lets it get recorded deserves the increase in malpractice costs.  What happens in the OR stays in the OR.

They panda has a point. Some people need to pay the idiot tax.

At least once a week I some some kid filming something or taking pics with a cell phone and I GET DOWN ON MY KNEES AND THANK THE ALMIGHTY (insert whatever metaphysical being that may or may not exist) that cell phones and digital cameras did not exist when I was younger. Ye gods sometimes you just want to hang out at a party without some jackass taking pictures of everything. How do kids function today with these devices?  :geezer:

Indeed.

Rectum? It nearly killed 'em! :rimshot:

That was a bit of a stretch.

That means 100 people in China could have done it.

Try 1,000 there math whiz.