The victim of the Cebu Surgery Scandal has decided to press charges against the whole medical team and the higher board members of the hospital where the surgery was performed. The lawyer of the victim said that this unfortunate event is more than a patient being violated but also a case of discrimination, an issue which should be brought to the public eye.

The client was sexually abused by his parter who forcefully put the canister in his anus and then the client was raped. The doctors and the medical team of the hospital found this to be very unusual so they decided to video tape the whole surgery without the consent of the patient. As you may all know, they also decided to post the video on youtube also without the consent of the client. It is as if they automatically assume that the client would already that the patient would agree to the idea because after all, he’s gay.

All patients have the right to full disclosure from the moment that they make any interaction to any member of the medical team. It is already the responsibility of that member to keep what he knows to himself. This is the basic rule in any medical science. No matter what your beliefs are, once you pledge into your line of work, you will put them aside. This is because you should be open minded enough to know that equality must rule every decision that you make. You should know that all people have the same rights. You cannot force everybody to agree with what you believe in and it is wrong to do so because that is the reason why everybody has his or her own free will. Free will is about being satisfied with what you know and being happy about it no matter how different they may be from anybody else.

Due to this point that you just have to wonder, would they have done the same thing if the patient was a woman? Would they even think about video taping it? My strong guess is that the answer is no because they would think that if that happened to their sister or their mother, they would not want anybody video taping it. But, they forgot one major point. It is quite impossible that none of them have even at least one gay friend. What if that happened to him? All it takes is just one person to step up and say that probably, what they are doing is inhumane, just one person to say that what they are doing is wrong. But sadly none of them thought of that because they immediately assumed that the patient would agree to the idea because he was gay.

There are many intelligent technological advances in the world and yet there are people stupid enough to discriminate others.