Videotaping one's own exam

I am wondering about taping my next physical (should be in the next few days) to add here for those who say there are not enough male exams available to view. Is doing something like that legal? If so, how should I approach it with the doctor...and should I get a friend to go with me to do the taping?

Bob

I believe you'd have trouble getting a physician to agree to that. The climate today with privacy issues and liability etc. I could be wrong though.

Maybe if you had a good plan about how the video were to be used....

I think most real doctors would not be agreeable to allow the exam to be videotaped. There are too many lawsuits, and too many complications with privacy, etc.

I don't believe that privacy issues would be the limiting issue since it is your privacy and you have the exclusive ability to control your own privacy rights. I think Kimberly is more on target when she mentions potential lawsuits against the provider. With that said, assuming you are going to a physician that you have had for some time and have an established relationship, you can ask and see what response you get. I'd be prepared for the inevitable question that will follow... "Why do you want to tape the exam?".

Your probably right Deke. As long as no ones face was in the video, and no names used, that would probably solve the privacy issues, but I can see the doctor worrying about the tape coming back to haunt him in some way or another.

Video taping of exams I don't believe would be allowed in our Doctor's practice. Why would you want to have your exam taped?

If its a real medical then thats a nono, If its a play exam and you both consent or block faces out then i see no harm.

My husband was not allowed to videotape the birth of our two children. The doctors in the delivery room would not allow it. They did not even allow pictures either.

You would have to secretly videotape your exam and the video would have to be a secret that you take to your grave.

Doctors are just too paranoid about lawsuits.

You would have to get one of those hidden cameras from www.amazon.com that hide in a cap or purse. The news people have done when they are doing a story on doctors that are not behaving properly.

Tell the doctor you are doing an artistic work about yourself, that you are documenting several important issues and happenings in your life. something like a work in progress selfportrait. Tell him that you are shooting all kind of events and material concerning you. That you felt that need and that you don't even know the exact purpose of that "call".

I have heard of people doing it for workers comp cases. One local lawyer on TV recomends it even.

Perhaps you could write and sign a document that he could keep in his records that says... something, I dunno I'm not very good with legal stuff. But if it's on paper & signed it's as good as gold to them.

I think nobody do it