With so many problems from botched surgeries you would think a patient would be able to request this.
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It would not be particularly distracting as others have said. Many surgeries are minimally invasive, where cameras are inserted into the body. These have video feeds to monitors, which you can get still frames and video from. The surgery would be no different from the point of view of the surgeon. Regular “open” surgeries would be harder. You couldn’t see anything from most of the room. Some OR lights above the table can have cameras in them, which would work somewhat well. But they are an expense most hospitals won’t pay to install. The big issues are storage, audio, and legal issues with protected patient info. Videos take up a lot of hard drive space. The equipment is not set up to store that video automatically, and hospitals again are not going to spend money on storage drives for every procedure. You *can* record to things like thumb drives. But, hospitals have strict policies about what can be recorded and how. They don’t want to risk HIPAA violations (in the U.S.) if a thumb drive is lost or patient info otherwise gets released. That’s probably the biggest reason it’s not typically done. Also, as your surgeon, I’m going to be much more focused on the surgery and caring for you than remembering to set up video recording
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