With so many problems from botched surgeries you would think a patient would be able to request this.
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The real truth is they (surgeon, hospital, insurance companies) don’t want evidence to use against them in the event of a malpractice suit. You will hear a million other excuses why, just like the ones cops use about wearing cameras, but this is exactly why. Things like this will never be 100% voluntarily instrumented. Legislation will have to eventually be passed, but guess who votes on that and who they are owned by?
This should be a requirement. When you leave a botched surgery, all you have are the notes dictated by the surgeon that fucked things up, as provided by the hospital with something to lose over malpractice.
The answers so far are all wrong.
The truth is that your surgeon doesn’t want you seeing her singing along to the 90s gangster rap she’s blasting during your bowel resection or hearing her curse at the anesthesiologist.
Sure she probably doesn’t want to be recorded either, who does, and it would probably fuel unwarranted lawsuits and increase malpractice claims, but the real reason is the music, it looks unprofessional.
Seems like the rest of y’all have never been in an OR with all your answers about insurance and liability.
When I’m operating I blast EDM and am shooting the shit with the other folks in the room. Not sure I would want that recorded and without that atmosphere I’d be a worse surgeon.
On top of that, patients are naked and that’s a difficult thing to have kept securely on video.
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