Sorry if this has come up before. I have seen it a time or two, but saw it again over the weekend.
How do you feel about patients taking pictures for their own personal use of wounds, etc? I always wonder if it's going to be used for a legal purpose along the way. I think it's kind of odd? Pt was in his 40's, had bil left leg fasciotomies and an above the ankle guillotine amp due to an acute clot that failed thrombolysis. He stopped us in the middle of the dressing change to snap pics to "send to his buddy." Couldn't take one on his own of the amp site, so asked the LPN assisting me to do it (she declined, she doesn't have a cell phone with a camera and didn't konw how to work it.......I would've said no regardless, but his GF ended up taking the pic).
