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Check Your Camera At The Hospital Door
Category: Seeing Clearly Now
The Feb. 20, 2006, issue of Newsweek Magazine has an article about camera-shy hospitals. Maybe the day of the spy camera tie pin will be dawning soon in deliver rooms.
Viviana Chapman, who's due to give birth on March 1, was looking forward to capturing the event on camera. "This was going to be our memory forever," she says. But Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago, like a growing number of the 2,778 U.S. hospitals with delivery rooms, is turning down patients' requests to videotape births. The official reason: privacy and safety concerns. But some say the real reason is that hospitals are afraid the tapes will be used against them in malpractice suits.
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When Alison gave birth to our little girl two months ago at St. Joseph's Women's Hospital in Tampa we were told by our nurse that there was to be "no video recording during the delivery becuase of liability concerns." Hmm...that camcorder I lug around is quite the dangerous instrumentality. I have to be careful it doesn't harm anyone.
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at February 12, 2006 06:23 PM