By Lindsey Bever Lindsey Bever General assignment reporter covering national and breaking news Email Bio Follow April 3 at 4:03 PM A California women’s hospital is accused of placing hidden cameras in operating rooms, where it secretly recorded scores of patients in stirrups during intimate medical procedures, including treatment after miscarriages, a lawsuit alleges.
“It was a highly stressful and emotional time for my family and my doctor. No one ever asked me to record one of my most tender, life-changing moments,” one of the patients, Melissa Escalera, told NBC San Diego about the secretly recorded moment in September 2012 that her daughter was delivered via an emergency C-section. “I would have never agreed to be recorded in that vulnerable moment.
But more than that, the women say, the hospital was “grossly negligent” in how it stored their most personal and private moments — on desktop computers that numerous users could access, some without password protection. But according to the lawsuit, they “were set up to record when any person entered an operating room, to record a wide range of activity in the operating room beyond access to the drug cart, and to continue recording even after motion stopped,” meaning about 1,800 patients were recorded during that time.
And, according to the lawsuit, at times their “most sensitive genital areas” were visible to the camera.
sad such low level incidences happening even in well developed n advance country?Is it bcoz USA media looked outside news?
Report says the intent was to capture employee(s)who were possibly stealing propofol. Were the employees aware of the camera too or was the camera installed without their knowledge as well?
No biggie. It’s just women, amirite? /sarcasm off/
Nightmare
horrible
Gross!