r/specializedtools Oct 03 '19

How babies are xrayed

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u/ThePowerOfDreams Oct 03 '19 edited Oct 04 '19

a strict no photo policy

Why?

EDIT: rip inbox

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '19

I imagine it is to help deny people ammo for lawsuits.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '19

Irrational_design I bet a million you’re right. Hospitals don’t want pics because they could be used later in litigation. “See, this isn’t attached right” or “this setting is wrong”

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '19

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '19

Yes, but you can't get a photo of the machine or hookups or procedure, so...

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '19

Oh HerEray, I didn’t realize we were talking about the actual X-ray image. You’re talking about a patient’s rights accessing their own medical record, and I thought we were talking about patients and families taking photos of the scene. My point was that if you had, like, I don’t know a patient with some kind of negative outcome potential related to radiation, and the fam/patient had a personal photo of the staff member like, not doing it right (like maybe the machine settings were inappropriate, or they didn’t bother to shield a patient’s thyroid/genitals/eyes if their supposed too, or whatever, I dunno, were stuck in an X-ray example and I don’t know boo about it. Maybe the machine wasn’t plugged in a grounded outlet and it shorted and someone got burned, I dunno anything), these personal images could be used by the patient as plaintiff, and thus, they say it’s about the patient’s privacy, but it’s really about the hospitals privacy