Showing posts with label medical errors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medical errors. Show all posts

PostHeaderIcon Dr. Vicki Belo: a lesson on cosmetic surgery, sex, & "quackery"?

11/07/2009 | Posted by mesiamd | Edit Post


As a physician, Dr. Vicki Belo is an exception. She is the sexy owner of the Belo Medical Group, a professional practice which takes care of the aesthetic aspects of medicine--- especially for the movie stars and famous people of Manila. In the proces, she has become a stand-out doctor and a celebrity of sorts.

Like her famous patients, the lady MD has been entangled in a string of sensational controversies. Her personal life has been closely tissed together with her work. She draws public interest like the moth hovering over the proverbial lamp. Some burning here and there keeps the doctor's fame and notoriety.

A few months ago, she and boyfriend Dr. Hayden Kho, a cocky doctor in her group, were the subjects of searing gossips of romance, sexual escapades, and lewd videos. At least a couple of movie starlets were involved that brought curious senators liking to investigate in the name of legislation. The news that followed was risque and unheard of in the medical profession.

It was embarrassing for all parties that something obscene had to be laid bare in all corners of the world. Video tapes of carnal pleasures were surreptitiously passed on and illegally sold in the sidewalks. Their story was red hot--- catching the attention of institutions like the Philippine Medical Association, the Senate Committee on Youth, Women and Family Relations, The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, and the National Bureau of Investigation.

More recently, Dr. Belo is again in the news. A 40-year old patient Josefina Norcio who asked for a butt job accused the doctor of tax evasion, estafa, and bad medical practice.

According to the patient, she almost died from an unsafe agent used by Dr. Belo and her assistants during a surgery to improve the looks of her buttocks. Shelling out the right money for the procedure, Norcio was disgruntled. She claimed she was not given a receipt. Norcio accused Dr. Belo of malpractice: engaging in medical "quackery" and using misleading advertising in her job.

Whether the allegations are true or not, it’s a hell of a situation to be in the doctor’s position. Though Dr. Belo is the main target, there are those who mistakenly think that it’s the medical profession which has to be judged in the scandals. (Photo Credit: www.tvpinoy.info) =0=

RELATED BLOGS: "As the Kho-Halili sex scandal is investigated, obscene video sells briskly in the sidewalk" Posted by mesiamd at 5/29/2009; "A cosmetic surgeon shows off his sex video" Posted by mesiamd at 5/20/2009

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PostHeaderIcon Breach of trust in medical practice: perfume canister incident, MD’s sexual escapades & GMA's breast implant repair

7/15/2009 | Posted by mesiamd | Edit Post
A Sick Child Brought into the Temple of Aesculapius
Oil on canvas, c.1877 by John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)



We have learned a whole lot of errors in the medical profession. Once we read of the hideous perfume canister incident that was videotaped by doctors and nurses in Cebu to humiliate a suffering patient with a foreign body in his butt. Then we heard of that poorly trained plastic surgeon who brandished his bedtime sexual escapades with movie starlets in the You Tube, shocking the entire medical community. Now we have no less than the medical records of Pres. Gloria M. Arroyo (GMA) being pilfered and exposed by unauthorized personnel in the Asian Hospital.

All these are worrisome and paint a picture of an awful trend which tells that the privacy and ethics of the medical profession must be guarded and respected. Pres. Arroyo isn’t so popular, but there is no reason for anyone to break into her privacy. It is embarrassing to learn that in the Philippines, confidential data of the president’s health is easily laid bare by people who have nothing to do with her treatment.

If it were true that a certain Dr. Maria Niza Bermudez-Reyes, a resident trainee in OB-Gyn of Asian Center instructed three medical staff to access Arroyo’s records for reasons outside her line of duty, she violated professional confidentiality.

It could have been tempting and salacious for others like her to know if indeed, Arroyo had breast augmentation and implants decades ago. It could be a source of loose talk if they had them repaired in a hospital in Manila. Information like this could be leaked to make fun, humiliate, and extort money from anyone including the president.

But wherever the truth rests in this alleged violation of patient trust, a stronger safeguard to keep-out unqualified medical personnel must be done. Any wrong-doing must be meted with apt punishment. With the growing use of computers to keep medical records, one can imagine how fast data can travel on the wrong hands.

On the ethical and moral side, healthcare workers must be doubly conscious of the duty they have for those who seek their help and confidence. They have to remember, they too will one day be patients. (Photo Credit: www.mlahanas.de) =0=

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