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We Filipinos Always Manage to be in the Headlines in Canada

April 20, 2008

We described the side comment from the Desperate Housewives about Filipino doctors as degrading, right? Now, I could not, in my simple little mind figure out why someone would upload a confidential operation on Youtube. I am talking about that “Vicente Sotto Medical Center Scandal.” I’ve seen it. Although it was taken down from Youtube, you could still find the link where you can download it - for $1.00. Talk about enterpreneurship………. Well, i’ve downloaded it for free…

I came across it last week but I just shook my head. I didn’t dwell on it. But today while reading news from the CBC website (Canadian Broadcasting Centre), the VSMCC Scandal was one of the headlines. Of course it doesn’t say VMSCC scandal but “Doctors face dismissal after surgery posted on Youtube.” Here’s the link, read it for yourself - Doctors face dismissal after surgery posted on Youtube . At the bottom of that article, you can see different reactions from Canadians.

The first word that came to my mind after reading the article - unprofessional. The behavior of the staff in that operating room was really bad - taking videos with their cellphones and their digital cameras while laughing. Don’t get me wrong, I would like to have fun as much as possible in my work place but not the expense of a patient being operated on. It was a total lack of respect for the patient. If that happened in Canada, that would be a multi-million dollar law suite.

It just really hurts sometimes that you are all out in enhancing your image to the world as a Filipino, then you come across disappointing news like these…..

Anyway……I am still proud to be a Filipino. If you missed my write-up about 300 Philippine nurses coming to Saskatchewan, you can read it here - http://www.i-filipino.com/2008/03/300-philippine-nurses-to-saskatchewan.html

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Written by filipinocanadian · Filed Under Blogging, Current Events, Health, Jobs, Medicine, News, OFW, Opinion, Personal, Tourism, Travel, Women 

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One Response to “We Filipinos Always Manage to be in the Headlines in Canada”

  1. Comparison Shopping on April 24th, 2008 2:30 am

    While am not Filipino, I have deep respect for these people, I have nothing but good things to say about them. Every culture has something to be ashamed of, in this case, certainly the video is not exactly respectful. But then again, this could of happened anywhere else in the world. We are only human.

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