Media In The Delivery Room.. Allowed or Not?

[enjoynz]

Wouldn't this be breaking one of your Human Rights....Freedom of expression?
Given that any such use of the recording would not be used in breaking any of the other Rights or Acts.
I think couples that wishes to record their child's birth, have the law on their side.
After all, it would not be breaking the Privacy Act if the mother of the child gave her concent to be filmed.
Then again, wouldn't you just die if your parents decided to show the recording at your 21st Birthday!h34r:

Enjoynz

 

[abckidsmom]

Wouldn't this be breaking one of your Human Rights....Freedom of expression?
Given that any such use of the recording would not be used in breaking any of the other Rights or Acts.
I think couples that wishes to record their child's birth, have the law on their side.
After all, it would not be breaking the Privacy Act if the mother of the child gave her concent to be filmed.
Then again, wouldn't you just die if your parents decided to show the recording at your 21st Birthday!h34r:

Enjoynz

The Constitution forbids the federal government from interfering with your right to free speech. Thankfully, the Constitution protects businesses' right to not allow whatever they want in the privacy of their own institutions.

Whether I agree with this or not, I think it's something the free market should work out, not something the government should swoop in and get involved with.

 

[Aidey]

one of the really good points that was brought up was the staff's right to privacy. Would all of those people want to be on someone's facebook or youtube? Which really makes sense to me, I dislike having my picture online, and I would be pretty irritated if some one filmed a birth with 20 minutes of footage of me in it and put it online.

 

[Veneficus]

one of the really good points that was brought up was the staff's right to privacy. Would all of those people want to be on someone's facebook or youtube? Which really makes sense to me, I dislike having my picture online, and I would be pretty irritated if some one filmed a birth with 20 minutes of footage of me in it and put it online.

I would just charge extra for use of my likeness or image

 

[enjoynz]

one of the really good points that was brought up was the staff's right to privacy. Would all of those people want to be on someone's facebook or youtube? Which really makes sense to me, I dislike having my picture online, and I would be pretty irritated if some one filmed a birth with 20 minutes of footage of me in it and put it online.

Then wouldn't you say to the couple that it would be ok for them to have the birth filmed, as long as your face was excluded from the film, even get them to sign it in writing.
That way, if they played it on youtube for the world to see, you could sue the pants of them?

I don't want to get off track with this thread, although I'd like to make a point, if I may.
Tell me if there is one of you on this EMS site that have not watched a medical procedure or EMS training of some description on youtube?

I remember when I was at the station for 12 hours per shift (that was before St John took the online time of us, Mr Brown),I found youtube a great learning tool.
One day my Station Officer (an EMT-I) came in and I'd not long found a very good english film on intubation. I told him about it and he said to me....
"Yes, but you shouldn't look at things on youtube as it can be inaccurate."
I thought I'd show it to him anyway.
He played it over about 4 times before sending the link to his home computer.

I've also used youtube as a tool while writing my novel. If it had not been for some patients that had a family member or friend
take a recording of their chest drain being removed, I would not have accurate report of the event.
Don't get me wrong though...I would never in a million years have wanted the births of my children filmed or played for the world to see,
but for those that do...from a medical view they have done many of us a service to some degree. Tell me how many EMT-B's or P's for that matter,would have seen a birth first hand, before seeing it on film???
Although I think the percentage of couples that would want the birth of their child recorded, would keep this miracle of life to themselves, don't you?

 

[Aidey]

But some mothers who think they want the whole experience recorded change their minds. Robin Dobbe, 27, was angry when she first learned about the Meritus policy (“It’s my body”), and she signed the petition.


But once she was giving birth to her son, Charlie, she wanted her mother by her side, not taking pictures. Her mother was allowed to start shooting within 30 seconds.


“I look like a complete mess,” Ms. Dobbe said. “I wasn’t decent for Facebook.”

From the NYT article.

Those in their 20s have spent all of their teenage and adult years with the internet available to them. To them and younger generations social media is becoming ingrained in daily life, and it is normal to share everything.