Shameless and Shameful

Shame on You Doc(s)

There is a certain video that is popular in You Tube. The video shows a group of doctors operating on a person that have a plastic bottle inserted in a private part of his body. There’s laughter and shouts (as if the doctors were in a boxing match and not in an operating room) after the bottle was removed. In an interview by a reporter from ABS-CBN, the patient/victim in the video said that he is not aware that he was being videoed because he was sedated during the operation. He also said that the doctors insulted and taunted him. Now the patient/victim lives in shame as his operation were now scattered in the net.

The doctors in the video were utterly unprofessional and gave a shameful image to all Filipino doctors and medical practitioners. First and foremost, they did not acted as respectful professionals during the operation. They acted like heartless onlookers —- hooting, shouting and laughing — taking pictures of the patient and his predicament. Secondly, they broke the code of ethics that all doctors should follow by not respecting the privacy of the patient. Last but not the least, they acted inhumanely. They took and scattered the video of the operation without the knowledge and the permission of the patient. They placed him in a bad light and made his life more miserable.

I am ashamed on the way they had acted. I am ashamed that the whole world will see how sick some of my fellowmen to do a sick joke to their fellowman despite of his predicament. Shame on them! They must be stripped off their license and be punished accordingly. Unfortunately, Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Hospital, the hospital where these doctors were employed ruled that they will not be kicked out of the hospital simply because there are few doctors left in the country. Shame again. Their reasoning is downright wrong and may result in destroying the patient-doctor relationship in the Philippines. If we will follow the reasoning of that hospital, then we are giving our doctors a green light that they can play on their patients because we desperately need them and we cannot afford to lose any of them.

If this our reasoning then it is no wonder that we cannot remove the president from her post, simply because there is only one left in our country.

Shameless Powerplay

There’s news that suspension on Pedro Cuerpo, Montalban’s mayor, is suspended and the order came from the Palace. It seems that the president is keen on saving politicians of her kind. It is also apparent that for a “public servant” to be free from investigations should do what the president is doing despite of allegations of corruption that being thrown on her left and right, that is to cling on to power no matter what the cost.

 

With this political development, the investigation on the allegations against the mayor will be in peril. It will be harder now for him to be investigated and prosecuted.

Cuerpo succeeded in getting a nod from the Palace. His goal in protecting his ill-gotten wealth had been achieved, for a while. Cuerpo, Arroyo and the likes may succeed today in keeping themselves hang on to power today, I am sure that they will be punished maybe not tomorrow, maybe not in the next scores of years, but they will be punished. When their punishment comes, it will be too late for them to repent.

Open Up Your Haciendas

With the pangs of hunger at the country’s doorstep, politicians all around the nation drummed up the idea of using all idle lands for agriculture. All idle lands here means that all lands within our nation regardless if it’s commercial, residential, or pasture lands. One politician went further by saying that there should be a law that will give the power to confiscate privately owned idle lands and use those lands for producing food. I think that their ideas are good, but wouldn’t it be better if our politicians let open up their haciendas and let the public use it as farmlands? Wouldn’t it be better if they return all their ill-gotten lands to the government? What a shame to many of them that talks about how to save our people from the threat of starvation but all the while own stretch and stretch of lands. Shameful hypocrites indeed.

 

 

Read my previous post about Mayor Cuerpo in Another Story of Greed.