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Re: OB: No Candid CameraFrom: Dean Huffman . (dean@thehuffpeople.net)Fri Feb 17 10:25:49 2006
.. I do not know whether it is true, or not, but I heard of the case where an obstetrician had a shoulder dystocia with the father taping the delivery. The obstetrician went into "lecture mode" and that time and said, "First I am going to ... " and described every move in text book fashion. As I understand it, with this tape, there was absolutely no case for the plaintiff. Dean Huffman - - - - Feb 17, 2006 9:43 AM Re: OB: No Candid Camera Always a good point about "be used against you in a court of law." However, the sword cuts both ways. I was recently on a jury for a DUI charge and we had the cop's video as evidence. Of course, the DA claimed it showed the driver swaying while he walked and slurring his words. The jury, on the other hand, felt otherwise and ruled in favor of the defendant. So a video of, say, a doctor delivering a shoulder dystocia, with the various maneuvers and etc. PROPERLY DONE, could actually prove helpful in court, in the long run. Joe P. -----Original Message----- From: art fougner, md <evsono@pipeline.com> To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L <ob-gyn-l@dns.obgyn.net> Sent: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 07:59:25 -0600 Subject: OB: No Candid Camera Not to change the subject but ... 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. Though videos rarely yield evidence, Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital in 2004 banned cameras during births, in part because some patients with tapes threatened lawsuits. "It doesn't mean that malpractice occurred," says hospital spokeswoman Kelly Sullivan. "But [the tape] can be used as a weapon in manipulating a pain-and-suffering award that shouldn't be awarded." Read the whole thing. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11298756/site/newsweek/
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