Secretly videotaping a real physical exam

Here's a story about it happening the other way around. Plastic surgeon in Toronto recording patients in consult room, and everyone on his staff know about it too. Will be interesting to see where this goes.....

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4944628

I just would not do this in a RL situation. It is a breach of trust despite whether or not it is legal or not. If I were a doctor I would not hesitate to show the patient the door clothed or otherwise.

I've been pretty consistent that to secretly video or take pictures during an exam or in any medical enviroment is WRONG. However, I must confess I have secretly taken pictures on two occasions. Both were at the Physical Therapy facility where I take my wife. The PT assistants are 20-30ish young women who wear tight black leotards and tops. They are all VERY shapely and in Excellent shape. Twice, while one of them was bent over a desk reading a chart - I secretly photographed her very lovely, endearing and enticing ass.

So shoot me!!!

It's a nasty thing to do to your doctor/nurse. Fetishes are great and med fet is pretty harmless, but once any fetish activity takes advantage of an unknowing or unwilling participant, they become something ugly. if you want to grab a selfie in the exam room while you are waiting, probably no one will care, but to secretly record the exam is a betrayal of trust. What if the video got out? How would you like to be a doctor who finds out he is on a fetish website somewhere? It harms him/her and makes everyone in that fetish look sleazy.

This debate can continue until the cows come home but it is still unethical regardless of the legality issue. SwitchableSusie has executed some very valid points. She is a knowledgeable health care provider/PA. Her "street cred" is quite apparent because of some solid years of experience. Put yourself in the shoes of your doctor before you hit that record button. You are not playing fair.

Ya'll argue all you want, meanwhile, I will continue videoing the wife during any of her exams..........Yes, she knows.....Sometimes, anyway. She's not into it at all, but a pretty good sport all things considered. I got one a week or so back of possibly the hottest thyroid exam I've ever seen and then auscultation of heart and lungs. Kicked her feet up and auscultated, palpated then even percussed her abdomen. It's pretty hot.

I always get the nurse taking her blood pressure, a favorite past time of mine😃

Just before an appointment with a consultant last year I did consider recording it with the voice recorder on my phone. I knew he'd be talking a little bit about heart-related stuff, and to be able to play that back in privacy....listening to a man talk about hearts - and in particular MY heart - would have provided masturbation material for years to come, lol. But in the end I didn't have the nerve.

Around the same time I also had to have an echo-cardiogram and I thought about asking for permission to film the screen. But I couldn't think of a valid enough reason to ask for that ("do you mind if I film the screen while you do the scan so that as soon as I get home I can touch myself as I watch my actual heart pumping?" I didn't think would get me very far ?) so again I lost my nerve in the end.

I would never dare film in secret - the repercussions of my phone filming being discovered are just too awful to make it worth the risk...

I just wouldn't dare, although how I wish I could see a video of myself being examined and tested.

I've never recorded my exam as in a time I got it there was no small spy cameras on market. But I wish to see how my anus exam looks like. Who know maybe one day. 😉

Just before an appointment with a consultant last year I did consider recording it with the voice recorder on my phone. I knew he'd be talking a little bit about heart-related stuff, and to be able to play that back in privacy....listening to a man talk about hearts - and in particular MY heart - would have provided masturbation material for years to come, lol. But in the end I didn't have the nerve.

@ListenToMyBeats, I've had a few patients ask to voice-record their consultations with me, and I've never had a problem with that. (Not that I suspected that *that* was why they were asking, though next time maybe it will cross my mind...)

Video recording, I'm not sure how I'd feel about that. I am damn sure that if I discovered a patient had been recording me secretly I'd find it pretty hard to continue a professional relationship with them.

In some ways videoing is just a more modern version of recording the findings of an exam in written case notes, or in a different way the use of chaperones to provide a witness against improper activity. I think it would be awkward to refuse a patient's request for a chaperone for their support. So if a patient chose to request a video recording for the same reason, and facilities were present, I don't see a logical reason for declining it.

It is definitely illegal for them to do any recording without your permission.

My sub had an general exam recorded, it was done by a student doctor. It would not have been recorded had he not signed off with consent.

Just as I would be outraged to have an exam recorded without my consent I respect my dr enough that I would give the same in return.

Think it's pretty bad thing to do plus if going to get clear clip of anything you are likely to be caught.

Video recording, I'm not sure how I'd feel about that. I am damn sure that if I discovered a patient had been recording me secretly I'd find it pretty hard to continue a professional relationship with them.

The Doctor has spoken. I think a lot of health care professionals would have a problem with it. While it might not be illegal to record your own exam I do think it is a breach of trust to do it without their knowledge. It is definitely illegal for them to do any recording without your permission. I've had my doctor want to take an image of certain areas for later reference and he will ask permission first then put it in my file. This is usually a foot or something and not really a big deal.

I’ve taken a couple of innocuous exam room pics (no people or anything to give away location or provider), but video or pics with provider in the room is inappropriate and presumably illegal. Your imagination and memory is probably better than the reality anyway.

Not an exam but surgery. Many years after my bypass surgery my wife finally told me they recorded the whole operation and I could have had a copy. Now I ask for video copies BEFORE I go in if I would like one.

She's very good at filtering out things she has decided I don't need to know. I learn a lot from my grown kids at family get togethers around the kitchen table. Mostly from my youngest one who never grew up and left home. He always seems to know things that in my opinion should have been confidential information she shared with me. Like about 40 years after the fact I learned about the time her younger sister babysat for us when she was about 14. She wanted to know what it felt like having her breasts sucked on. Two young boys/two breasts hmmm 😁 . She knew about it the day after it happened I had to wait over 40 years to hear my youngest one mention it at the table. I think her filter is: if she doesn't want it, I don't want it because she decided that.