Doctor-Patient Confidentiality

When this is violated, the doctor in question should have his license revoked. I just read Gang's blog on a scandal that humiliated a patient of a Cebu government hospital. I googled it and saw several articles on online broadsheets.

Here are the bullet points from what I've read: *warning--graphic content*

• a gay gentleman solicited sex on New Year's eve. After sex when the gentleman fell asleep, the male prostitute left. And left something else too: a can of body spray shoved up the gay gentleman's rectum.
  
• gay gentleman, not knowing what happened to him, was in pain when he woke up, and went to the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) in Cebu on January 2. He got an x-ray and was scheduled for surgery on January 3. Ouch. That means the can has been in there for three days.
• the "professional" and "highly ethical" surgical team, composed of seven doctors (gasp! that many!) and a handful of nurses (according to the patient, before he fell asleep before surgery, the operating room was as noisy as Carbon market, and he was asking if all these people were necessary) took videos and photos of him with their camera phones while he was in surgery.
• one of the nurses uploaded her video on youtube in March. Video is no longer available.
  
• gay gentleman found out about it a few weeks ago only.
• he promptly filed suit.
• guess what the medical professionals got by violating the doctor-patient confidentiality, not to mention humiliating him by taking videos and photos, all the while laughing and cheering during the procedure? reassignment to other departments, varying degrees of suspension, but no dismissal from government service, no license was revoked . A simple slap on the wrist.

Let's see, how would they feel if they were being operated on, the medical staff laughing, jeering and heckling them, while they were in obvious pain and caught in the most humiliating situation on camera which would be uploaded on youtube for everyone online to witness? I don't think they'd be very happy.

Their names were not published to protect their privacy. What about the privacy of the patient?

I know the video is no longer available, but here it is. Again, it's graphic.