Patients filming Doctors: Healthcare Trend

TORONTO - The clock radio seemed innocuous enough, a typical addition to any hospital room. Hidden inside the clock, however, was a video camera that recorded doctors and nurses as they worked around the patient, footage that became exhibit Number 1 in a complaint about allegedly shoddy care at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre...

Patients' Association President Sholom Glouberman was asked to comment, arguing that patients should be encouraged to document their experiences.  "The comment that secret taping undermines trust is backwards. Secret taping occurs when trust is already undermined." What do you think? Like some patient advocates, do you think that video could be a legitimate tool to keep the system on its toes?

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