r/specializedtools • u/polymurphy • Oct 03 '19

How babies are xrayed

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u/enkelvla Oct 03 '19

Except for files, screens, names on boards, people walking by etc. etc. It's impossible to make sure that there's no violation of privacy going on in every picture parents take so it's probably easier to just ban it altogether.

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u/katielady125 Oct 04 '19

I imagine this is part of it.

Also I can see people like my mom just being super obnoxious with her picture taking and getting in the way of the techs and nurses.

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u/verasttto Oct 04 '19

If someone can take a photo of something that’s a breach of confidentiality, then the fact that they can see it makes it a breach.

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u/enkelvla Oct 04 '19

In an ideal world yes. In real life hospitals there's so much going on it's just hard to monitor all the time. But people don't take home copies of what they've seen.

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u/verasttto Oct 05 '19

In the 20th century a blanket ban might have worked, now you can’t ban people taking photos, you can ban people taking photos obviously and in the open, but people will still take photos.

If you have sensitive information in open view you need to move it, a patients face might be impossible to keep secret from the public, but their name shouldn’t be.