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The story
It has emerged that a staff member on night duty at Saiseikai Yahata General Hospital in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, filmed an inpatient and posted the footage on social media. The video showed the patient crawling on the floor, and the hospital has acknowledged the incident and apologized. The Asahi Shimbun reported the story on October 21. On 5ch, many replies expressed strong disgust toward the staff member who filmed it, while others pointed out that crawling on the floor can actually happen as a result of conditions like stroke aftereffects, sparking a debate over the patient’s condition. Posters also brought up a similar case involving a nurse at a hospital in Sapporo, turning social-media ethics in medical settings into a talking point.
Staff member filmed patient, hospital admits and apologizes: video of patient crawling on floor circulates on social media
Oct 21 (Wed), 17:35 JST
Asahi Shimbun
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Mind if I claim I said that?
Wouldn't 'stinky and creepy' work just as well? (wordplay swapping くそ/'damn' for くさい/'stinky')
At this point it can only have happened during the witching hour, lol
Re: #11
Exactly this.
The disgust toward the person who filmed it is intense
Seriously.
Nobody does petty, underhanded uses of it better than we do
Sharing images with a bunch of people and racking up likes probably gives them some kind of self-satisfaction
Their self-importance has inflated to the absolute extreme
Even granting that's true,
the moment you make it public, something's seriously wrong with you
Is this some kind of trend lately?
Or is it just normal in the nursing world and it's only now coming to light?
Apparently that one was set to followers-only, but someone betrayed them and reposted it on X
So there's probably a fair number of people doing this kind of thing
Venting about it within a small circle like that should be fine, I'd think
It's completely normal
When my work takes me into the back areas of a hospital (not the nurses' station), the verbal abuse just pours out nonstop
They'll casually say stuff like 'that patient's such a pain, I wish they'd just hurry up and die' (タヒ is a deliberately garbled spelling of 死ぬ, 'die,' used to dodge filters)
Honestly, it's made me scared of nurses and reluctant to go to the hospital
Apparently both of those two had been on the job less than a year
If they're licensed nurses straight out of vocational school or junior college, that'd put them around 21-22
A workplace where new hires have time to kill after only six months or so on the job…
that's an incredibly cushy ('white,' i.e. non-exploitative) employer
Sounds like a yakuza gang
Medical corporations are full of names ending in '-kai'
That's embarrassingly naive, honestly
The Imperial Gift Foundation Saiseikai was established by an imperial edict from Emperor Meiji
Members of the imperial family have since served as its president, so it's a medical organization with strong ties to the imperial family
It's a public institution with a sense of public duty ranking just behind national/public hospitals and the Japanese Red Cross
It was a monster nurse
It was a demon nurse
But I'd only share it within my own circle
only with people I absolutely trust
The thought that people without a shred of morals are going to be the ones propping up Japan from here on… what kind of country is that going to turn into, lol. Though I'll probably be dead in about 15 years anyway, so it's not really my problem
Apparently they posted it to a locked (private) account and it still got reposted elsewhere
What's your standard for 'absolutely trustworthy'?
Just a gut feeling?
Hospitals are way behind on that kind of compliance
Hospitals are actually incredibly strict about this
Lose a single scrap of notepaper and you end up crawling around the whole ward searching for it
At a proper hospital, personal smartphones aren't even allowed on the premises
Though this place probably has the same rule — there are just people everywhere who ignore the rules, lol
This was at a certain Japanese Red Cross hospital, by the way
Calling it 'a certain' hospital isn't exactly hiding anything, lol
Since I don't know the full situation, it's possible she wasn't laughing at you specifically, but still, that's rude
Patient treatment was better in the Heisei era than in Showa, and now it's degraded again in Reiwa, lol
That's seriously awful. Isn't there a patient satisfaction survey or something?
Being restrained hand and foot suggests you were probably thrashing around, even if it was just from the medication
Then again, the bit about being laughed at could also have been delirium talking
Background and talking points on this story
Saiseikai is a public medical corporation established following an imperial edict from Emperor Meiji, and as the thread noted, it has deep ties to the imperial family. Medical staff posting patient information on social media is an act that can run afoul of Japan’s Personal Information Protection Act and the confidentiality obligations under the Medical Care Act, and similar cases — such as the one involving a nurse at a hospital in Sapporo — have been reported repeatedly in recent years. In many cases the pattern is the same: content shared under a followers-only setting gets reposted by a third party and that’s how it comes to light, and it’s easy to overlook that once something spreads, it gets treated the same as a public post regardless of whether the original poster meant for it to go public. The thread’s criticism centered mainly on the act of filming itself, but neither the article nor the thread’s replies make clear how well the hospital’s device-management rules and social-media training actually functioned.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (News Speed+) thread “[Fukuoka] ‘The night shift was way too creepy’ — staff member filmed patient, hospital admits and apologizes; video of patient crawling on floor circulates on social media; Saiseikai Yahata General Hospital, Kitakyushu.”
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