The latest trend in health care: Patients secretly filming doctors
The clock radio seemed innocuous enough, a typical addition to any hospital room. Hidden inside the clock, however, was a video camera that recorded doctors and nurses as they worked around the patient, footage that became exhibit Number 1 in a complaint about allegedly shoddy care at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.
The radio-cam’s owner was particularly stealthy, but many Canadian hospitals are reporting that surreptitious filming by patients and their relatives is an emerging new trend, paralleling the rapid spread of camera-equipped electronic devices and triggering strong debate.
