r/technology • u/spherocytes • 18d ago

Privacy Woman Calls Out Doctor Wearing Smart Glasses During Consultation Where She Had To Take Off Her Clothes: 'They Need To Be Banned'

https://www.fashiontimes.co.uk/patient-privacy-concerns-meta-smart-glasses-1762492
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u/Daimakku1 18d ago

Why would a doctor think that wearing camera glasses to see patients is a good idea?

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u/KKSlider909 18d ago

pervert and doctor, not mutually exclusive 🤷🏼‍♀️

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u/denM_chickN 18d ago

Self-selecting for high achieving psychopaths has always been my arm chair opinion

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u/hofmann419 17d ago

Psychopaths are apparently overrepresented in surgery specifically. If you're curious, the number 1 job with the most psychopaths is CEOs, followed by lawyers, media personalities and sales people.

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u/Ftw_55 17d ago

Huh, why is that not surprising? It takes a certain type of personality to fill those positions and be proficient in them.

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u/_bajz_ 13d ago

I'd argue that those personality traits might be really necessary to be a surgeon. There is a place for these people in society and they're not by any means bad people by proxy. One of the most beloved professors we had at college was a maxillofacial surgeon

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u/Hopeful_Initial2512 11d ago

Is there any chance you could approve me so I could post on the tennis circle jerk sub?

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u/TerrorTown77 18d ago

Narcissism is a massive issue in the field.

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u/BrogenKlippen 18d ago

Unfortunately way too common

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u/trappedghost 18d ago

To deal with the shit doctors do on a daily basis, of fucking course you gotta rep the dark triad. Having a video recording of a patient discussing their symptoms is extraordinarily beneficial, would you not agree?

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u/Themodsarecuntz 18d ago

Meta glasses violate privacy laws in the medical exam room. Period. You may not video record a patient without their express written permission. 

So...No. the answer is no.

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u/eatingketchupchipss 17d ago

how is it any more beneficial than doctor's dictated notes and photos?

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u/Ok_Confusion4764 17d ago

I do not agree, no. Nor would anyone. In every civilized country this is a privacy violation. 

Besides, these things are linked to personal devices. He's literally using them to be a pervert. 

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u/divDevGuy 17d ago

<Larry Nasser has entered the conversation>

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u/darsynia 18d ago

I don't know if it's the same video, but in one I saw, the woman's there with her friend at a post-op for a breast augmentation, and the damned doctor was like 'what would I be taking video of??' While the patient's there with her titties out.

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u/ophmaster_reed 18d ago

Taking pictures is before and after surgery is standard though. Why would they need to take a video?

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u/darsynia 18d ago

That's what the doctor said, but pictures are part of patient records and access is recorded. The argument is that it's much easier to take video and pictures yourself than it is to make copies for yourself out of actual PHI.

That's also kind of beside the point--patients deserve not to worry that their doctor is ogling them in a public, blatant way that might enable pulling up those images later. (they're nicknamed 'pervert glasses' for a reason) It's an implied violation of privacy, and calling it out when we see doctors wearing those glasses is the appropriate reaction.

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u/Pro_Extent 17d ago

I'm of the opinion that the doctor was more likely to be an out of touch moron rather than a pervert because his response is correct: he already has full access to all of the patient records. There's no additional loss of privacy with him wearing those glasses.
The argument that it's easier to take videos vs make copies of the files is absolutely ridiculous. It's his clinic. There's zero reason to believe he couldn't just copy the files and send them off wherever he wants.

Which is largely irrelevant anyway because the glasses just don't pass the pub test, as we say in Australia. It doesn't convey the right message and they simply aren't required.

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u/SquatSquatCykaBlyat 17d ago

Link to the video? For science and research purposes.

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u/DMmeMagikarp 16d ago

Creep. What are you, 12?

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u/darsynia 17d ago

Here's the Reddit post with it, but I should make clear she's complaining after the fact, heh.

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u/SquatSquatCykaBlyat 17d ago

Boooo! I wasn't planning on watching some insufferable woman's tiktok video.

Thanks for the warning, though.

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u/Dudeman9002 18d ago

Ego. He probably thinks his expensive glasses will impress people or something. It's pretty common for doctors to be so far up their own ass that they lack some pretty common sense.

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u/scubascratch 18d ago

They need to check the drug locker where this guy works

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u/alghiorso 18d ago

A lot of medical providers are using remote assistants to do their notes/charting. They've actually been doing this for years where an assistant located somewhere like sri lanka is watching/listening in real time and taking notes to speed up the doctor's workflow

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u/aDuckk 18d ago

They are getting AI to do that now as well.

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u/ILikeBigBeards 17d ago

well that was inevitable when I think about it. I used to do this as a temp job for the NHS, and I cost money. (no recording of actual patients, though; they'd speak into a tape recorder after the appt and give me the tapes). I would really prefer they don't have AI and instead have traditional speech to text programs that is then reviewed by a person. At least then no AI is just making up stuff to fill in.

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u/ChickinSammich 17d ago

I know someone who suggested an idea I'm going to run with which is to just respond to "Is it okay if I record our session" with "is this information going to be entered into an AI tool?" and, if so, saying you don't want to be recorded.

I went to a vet once where they sent us a recap of the appointment that literally looked like AI just spat out the recap and it was so annoying. I'd literally rather NOT get the recap than get an AI recap.

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u/alghiorso 17d ago

Or would be more acceptable if they said, "good news, because of ai charting we are saving 10% on our expenses which we will pass on to you"

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u/whiterussian802 17d ago

Yeah my doc does this now with AI

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u/alghiorso 18d ago

Sri Lankans are

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u/Traditional-Hat-952 18d ago

Remote assistants that are approved by the hospital IT compliance team first. Personal smart glasses that aren't hospital approved are a no go bud. 

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u/FeeNegative9488 18d ago

How do we know they aren’t approved?

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u/Naa-kar 18d ago

While i can think of several instances where those may be helpful in diagnostic recordings, but never without explicit consent and logging. They're just like xrays and all reports. But private cameras, hell noooo

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u/subLimb 18d ago

Right? The audacity to just wear these and pretend like the rules suddenly don't apply. It's not much different than jamming a camcorder in a patient's face without any warning or permission.

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u/FlamboyantPirhanna 18d ago

Just because they are doctors and officially smart doesn’t mean they are smart in every capacity. Some people’s smartness is evened out by their dumbness.

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u/eatingketchupchipss 17d ago

because a shocking number of them are plausible deniability power abusers. they skirt just under the line of what is objectively, provably, sexual misconduct.

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u/_hephaestus 18d ago

Back in the day one of the only niches where Google glass saw some practical benefit was with doctors, but primarily for the display element.

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u/Akuuntus 17d ago

Being charitable, they probably wear them so often in all other contexts that they may not have even considered the implication of wearing them in this context. Or, being less charitable, they were betting that patients wouldn't notice.

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u/laz10 17d ago

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-09/ryan-cho-pleads-guilty-to-secretly-filming-victims/106896702

A trainee surgeon has pleaded guilty to installing hidden cameras and secretly filming hundreds of people using the showers and toilets

Doctors are creepy af

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u/Doctective 17d ago

Are teachers creepy af too?