Taking Photos during an exam or medical procedure

Here's a question that occurred to me while going through photos of my late wife.

How many members have taken photos during an examination or medical procedure? And by this i mean with permission or knowledge of the attending doctor/nurse.

I know some like to take surreptitious or sneak photos of a wife or girlfriends gyn exam or such, without anyone knowing. But how many have done so openly? Btw: I'd like to exclude birthing photos. That is a whole different ballgame when it comes to taking medical photos of people you know.

In my case, my wife once got caught between two fighting cats and had a really long and bad gash cut in her lower leg. It was bleeding profusely and while the doc was stitching her up, I took a number of photos of her bloody leg and the stitching. Documenting her war wounds in the Cat Wars so to speak.

What have other members done in the way of photography in the open?

I ended up using www.nixplay.com to share stuff more easily with my partner when we were both a bit shy about talking face-to-face. It’s just digital photo frames, but showing pics or quotes opened up conversations we couldn’t start otherwise. Might sound weird, but it helped us feel more connected and kind of broke the ice in a low-pressure way.

The only time I've done this openly so to speak has been with a doctor who fully knew about my medical kink. This was a real, not play setting, and she was accommodating at the same time she was performing a regular gyn exam. Everything else has always been done without making it public.

Aside from a potential uneasy situation around recording an exam, we have a lot of dramatic signage and stern warnings recently here in the US about not bringing cell phones into an exam room. Of course no one pays any attention to that. It's not tied to the possibility of recording for kinky purposes, but rather with patients taking phone calls or texting or etc during an office visit. That's of course a bit of a 2-way street. There are plenty of physicians who think it's perfectly fine to expect you to wait an hour, and much longer past your appointment time for them to arrive, but don't dare be a second late yourself or try to accomplish catching up on your own duties with email and such while you sit and wait and wait and wait.

The ratio of surreptitious vs open mutually agreed upon recordings is probably about 100:2 at this point for me.

We took picture various times during hospital treatments and physical therapy. Always with permission. They always asked that we not include any other patients and sometimes not to show the doctors or nurses face. Often times the doctor/nurse/therapist posed with my wife for a photograph. Never took any intimate pictures, but did take pictures in the ICU recovery room while changing dressings, cleaning surgical wounds.

I had a foot infection that lasted for several years, so at a number of my visits they had to photograph me to update the condition for their records so they could visually see how it healed over time

@agracier , Being your wife was scratched by the cat(s) apparently pretty intensely m; based on your post, did she have to get rabies shots?

I ask because many years ago I did, the old fashion Pasteur treatment. No fun.

I have made images of college age females having their rectal temperatures taken( circa 80s)

@OverRainbow Being your wife was scratched by the cat(s) apparently pretty intensely m; based on your post, did she have to get rabies shots?

I ask because many years ago I did, the old fashion Pasteur treatment. No fun.

No, she didn't get any rabies shots. The two cats were domestic live-in cats who never went outside at all, due to our living in the middle of a city. Too dangerous to let them out.