Comments on: The ethics of using CCTV footage – A Very Dangerous Doctor

By: Steve Smith

Steve Smith — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 08:22:29 +0000

You make a good point about the cost to the public versus the benefits, however so long as we do not become a police state then I think the public would be more than happy to pay for it if they felt like it was beneficial to their safety, even if it actually wasn’t. People like peace of mind and are willing to pay for it. What do you reckon?

By: Paul Bradshaw

Paul Bradshaw — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:52:12 +0000

It may have been taken down under copyright infringement. I’m not sure I’d agree that CCTV is “only bad for those doing things they shouldn’t”, but that’s a whole other debate (summed up in a couple of points: the public cost of CCTV versus benefits; privacy vs public interest).

By: Steve Smith

Steve Smith — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:22:47 +0000

The video has gone from this post? Do you know where I could find it? The ethics of CCTV is something that will always be debated and there will never be just 1 school of thought on the matter. At the end of the day CCTV is only bad for those doing things they shouldn’t.

By: Barbara Bryan

Barbara Bryan — Fri, 13 May 2011 11:35:40 +0000

Unless until all conversations between medical and mental health and child welfare professionals and adjunct personnel are fully taped prior to apparently bizarre incidents it is possible, and in some incidents probable, that parents were induced to “prove” their children stopped breathing or turned blue if they had not done so during limited hours in hospital. Parents frantic for medical help for unpredictably I’ll children when told that “if something doesn’t happen in the next 12 hours your child will be removed from your care” may resort to inducing “proof.”. It has not been uncommon for parents to be taught in hospital to themselves tube feed or administer meds to extremely ill children only later to find themselves charged and prosecuted for allegedly purposely blaming them for notoriously rampant infections. This time, however, covert filming by the hospital and the imaginative and emotive claim of Munchausen by Proxy seems to support diversion from the much more likely culprit. Film and tape, yes! Everyone involved and at least audiotape all? Without fail if, that is, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is sought sincerely.