1. The Vicente Sotto Scandal, as many have tagged it, is actually about medical malpractice. The video shows a gay named Jan Jan, 39 years of age who had a can of Black Suede inserted in his behind. The patient claimed that his partner in bed forced him to do it. The Vicente Sotto scandal participants (doctors and nurses) are already under investigation, which should only be the case because they have violated one basic human right (i. e. , the right to privacy). A human rights violation should not go unpunished in my opinion.
The Vicente Sotto scandal is a testimony of medical malpractice wherein doctors, nurses and other health workers are not allowed by law and ethics to divulge information about their patients. That is one provision the Patient’s Bill of rights, it happened at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu, Philippines. The hospital administrators are also looking into this since the evidence is clear that the doctors and nurses did something terribly wrong to their patient.
2. 26-year-old Victoria Deraco died in a government-run hospital iafter she was given the wrong blood type in a procedure that was supposed to save her life. Deraco had just given birth by caesarian operation when she was transfused with type A blood at the East Avenue Medical Center in December 2004. The procedure was done three times before attending doctors realized that her blood type was B. Due to the mistake, the young mother slipped into a coma and died in January 2005.
Her family is now locked in a court battle against doctors, medical personnel and officials of the East Avenue Medical Center to seek justice for Deraco`s death – one of a growing number of horror stories resulting from medical negligence or incompetence in Philippine hospitals. But the fight has not been easy since the Philippines does not have a medical malpractice law that would govern such cases and make efforts by complainants to run after negligent or incompetent practitioners less tedious and expensive. Foreign Malpractice 1.
Focusing on 54 patients who filed claims for a medical malpractice claim, found that 69 percent of the foreign objects left behind after surgery were sponges and 31 percent were medical instruments. At least thirty-seven (37) of those patients required corrective surgery and one died. a woman had a surgical sponge inside her abdomen for more than two years. She kept going back to the doctor with complaints of back pain, incontinence, and stomach pain. The doctors kept telling her that this was a part of her recovery and that she may always have some minor discomfort.
The problem was that her initial surgery was a hysterectomy, and this procedure does not create permanent back pain. Then my client went to see a chiropractor for her back pain. The chiropractor took an x-ray and noted a large mass. The client was referred out for a CT scan, which confirmed this mass. Finally, a radiologist determined the mass was a foreign object. By this time more than 2 years had elapsed. The sponge had actually been partly absorbed by the client’s intestines, necessitating emergency surgery to remove it.
The plaintiff brought suit on behalf of himself and his infant for the wrongful death of the decedent mother following a cesarean section. The plaintiff alleged that the defendants were negligent in tearing major blood vessels that resulted in the decedent’s death. The plaintiff alleged that the defendants failed to realize and repair the damage. 2. ) The 33-year-old mother was admitted to the defendant hospital in labor. After fetal tracings demonstrated that the infant’s heart rate was dropping the defendant obstetrician decided to perform a cesarean section.
The plaintiff contended that two of the decedent’s major blood vessels were torn during the operation. The decedent’s blood pressure dropped and she complained of shortness of breath. The nurse called the defendant anesthesiologist regarding the drop in blood pressure. The obstetrician was notified late that night. At 12:17 a. m. the decedent went into respiratory distress. She was stabilized and moved to the operating room for exploratory surgery. The defendant obstetrician failed to determine the cause of the internal bleeding but assuming that it was related to the birth, decided to perform a hysterectomy.
The bleeding continued until approximately 6 a. m. when the torn blood vessels were noted. At that time, the decedent had already suffered brain death. The life support was removed two days later. The plaintiff brought suit against the defendant hospital, obstetrician, anesthesiologist and nurse alleging that the defendants’ cutting the decedent’s pelvic blood vessels during the cesarean section was negligent and the staff’s failed to recognize and treat the severity of the decedent’s condition prior to her going into respiratory distress.