You're browsing the web one day and come across some videos that expose girls private parts when they're on the exam table. How do you figure they got there.
The patients were denied the right to medical care unless they agreed to be exposed in public
We reserve the right to publish videos of you on the exam table for educational purposes†was hidden so deep into the fine print that some patients signed it in a hurry with tired eyes and thought they were seeing things
The patients were re-compensated for the loss of their medical privacy so they never had to work again
They put the patients on video without their knowledge and snuck it on YouTube and no one has reported it yet
HIPAA makes an allowance for practitioners who film their patients for public education
All the above
None of the above
How in the name of God did they get these people to agree to be filmed during their medical exams?
They show the girls' faces so you might recognize them and show close-up pictures of their private parts to display on YouTube?
All I had to do was sign into my account and tell them I'm eighteen or older to access these videos.
They show graphic pictures that I didn't really need to see. In one of them, the man doing the lady partsl exam actually addresses the patient by Ms……..†followed by her last name which really gave me the creeps.
Some but not all these videos had drawings of girls private parts which is all they really need to educate the anyone including nurses and medical students.
Any creepy eight-year-old can create a YouTube account and pretend they're eighteen or older. Any peeping tom can gain access to these pictures that show the private parts of girls in their practitioners offices and if you ever knew any sex predators, this whole idea would creep you out.
The girls exposed on the exam table never show the viewers that they know they're being filmed outside of one patient who smiles and holds a flower and who only has her face exposed to the camera.
When I was in training and we used patients for educational purposes it meant we were all inside of a shut curtain or closed up room protecting the patient's dignity.
In my general goings about I meet up with people who have no clue about a patient's right to privacy.
They seem to think it's ludicrous when you ask them to mind their own business.
They seem to think it's their own decision whether they invade someone's privacy depending on whether THEY are okay with it and sometimes depending on whether they sacrificed their own privacy and sometimes because of their own self-importance.
One person even told me, Well you have to talk about it,†when I refused to talk about my patients during a gathering. In this case, they expected me to think I was the poor little victim that has to talk about it.â€
The publics' ignorance and insensitivity are only being made worse by the availability of publicized pap smears. They make no mention of the fact that these patients are vulnerable.
They do not explain to their vast audience how the right to privacy and dignity are tied in with videos of patients' exams.
Maybe someone could clear up my confusion as far as how a medical office can reserve the right to go public with the care of their patients and include identifying information like the patients faces. I know there has to be some detailed process these people follow before they publish a video.
I would like to think the patients watch the videos first and then give their permission for them to be published.
I would like to think HIPAA requires the permission form for these pictures to be published to be separate from all other forms.
I do hope the entitlement of these practitioners to publish these videos is not because of some statement buried somewhere in a legal agreement that someone signs when they desperately need care.
I do hope You can't share pictures of me†is still an option when they expose someone's private parts on YouTube.
And the saying the "full name" on the video? Methinks that to put a search engine look at said name would bring you to the actor's personal web page, that one could access for $5 a minute or some other such thing.
Not to mention the "patient" who smiles and holds a flower...During a "real" pelvic exam!? That could be a clue as to the real nature of these videos.
There is nothing wrong with curiosity; curiosity leads to learning.
I think we need to avoid blanket statements like this. Of course curiosity is behind many scientific discoveries. Take, for example, germ theory. If it was not for curiosity, humans would not have looked under a microscope and gone down the road to discover what actually causes communicable diseases.
However, I can't use human curiosity and learning for opening someone's chart because I might learn something by looking at the CT results.
Going back to the OP, if I search for something benign, say yummy local restaurants, and something unrelated comes up, like pelvic exam videos on you tube, I could say human curiosity "made" me open the link. However, it does not mean that I had to keep watching it even after I realized it contained graphic pictures "I really didn't need to see."
Agree w/JustBeachyNurse - OP has a lengthy posting history, and many posts contribute to a picture of an unlicensed caregiver, with English as a second language, and a plethora of interpersonal difficulties exacerbated by a limited ability to interpret US cultural and professional norms.
"Girl" is a female child. As a mature woman, I find it a little creepy when women are referred to as "girls".
The fact that the OP uses these terms tells me that he is most likely a male who is at least 45 years old, likely older.
Thank you. Carry on.
No, I'm just someone who refers to woman as girls. I don't know where you work but they also refer to nursing aide teams as "the girls," even though most are in their 30s and older.
You should also remember that the term, "college girl," is quite common. A lot of the videos I found were not of older ladies but instead, "girls," who for all I know were eighteen-year-olds. When I was college-age, my room mates and I referred to each other as "girls." We got creeped out when referred to as "woman."
I think you might be missing some of the broader scope of why HIPAA was enacted -- which was essentially to protect patients against corporations accessing and then using medical information against the patient to raise premiums, deny coverage, target for specific types of advertising, etc. The fact that Nurse Sally now cannot tell everyone that patient Billybob has the clap without facing serious repercussions is kind of a side benefit. ie. you're essentially arguing individual morality vs. corporate "morality".
I know it's about insurance and the right to transport patient information from one place to another but it doesn't end here.
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Not to mention the "patient" who smiles and holds a flower...During a "real" pelvic exam!? That could be a clue as to the real nature of these videos.