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Medical students in the Philippines are now banned from videotaping
surgeries after one student allegedly uploaded a clip of a rectal
procedure on the Internet, the education department said Wednesday.
Commission on Higher Education Chief Romulo Neri
banned “video cameras, mobile phones with camera features and
other similar equipment. . . particularly while attending clinical
classes.”
Official sources said the ban was related to a
video clip that last month appeared on the Internet video-sharing
site, YouTube, showing nurses and surgeons laughing and cheering as
a canister was removed from a male patient’s rectum in an
operating room.
The video has embarrassed the Health Department
and the medical community, and the patient has threatened to sue for
violating his privacy.
There are widespread suspicions that a medical
student uploaded the video to YouTube.
Neri said his order aims “to ensure that the
integrity of all activities concerning the exercise or practice of
related learning experience of nursing and other medical students
are properly supervised and monitored.”
-- AFP
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