Posted on 02/17/2006 5:05:29 AM PST by Airborne1986
Newsweek Feb. 20, 2006 issue - Viviana Chapman, who's due to give birth on March 1, was looking forward to capturing the event on camera. "This was going to be our memory forever," she says. But Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago, like a growing number of the 2,778 U.S. hospitals with delivery rooms, is turning down patients' requests to videotape births. The official reason: privacy and safety concerns. But some say the real reason is that hospitals are afraid the tapes will be used against them in malpractice suits. Though videos rarely yield evidence, Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital in 2004 banned cameras during births, in part because some patients with tapes threatened lawsuits. "It doesn't mean that malpractice occurred," says hospital spokeswoman Kelly Sullivan. "But [the tape] can be used as a weapon in manipulating a pain-and-suffering award that shouldn't be awarded." Doctors say the no-movie-camera policies benefit patients. Tripods can fall into the "sterile field," says Laura Riley, director of labor and delivery at Harvard's Massachusetts General Hospital, adding that many doctors find filmmaking distracting and feel uncomfortable being taped. Privacy laws favor doctors' rights to be camera shy. ....
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LOL!
LMAL...
At halftime of the Super Bowl of course!
Agreed!
As well, it's not possible to "relive" that experience. What I tell first time expecting dads is that for a million bucks you couldn't put into writing the experience to make someone else understand.
I agree with you in the sense that if you spend time taping it, you'll miss that, and you won't be able to relive the experience no matter how hard you try. It's good to have a camera though for afterwards.
After everyone is cleaned up and settled, fine. I personally made Kodak stock jump two points during my oldest daughter's first year. ;~))
Cut the cord ? They asked me the same thing. I declined.
If I hire a plumber do I want to help do part of the job ?
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