This just blows my mind. I have read stories of people resenting ambulances outside residences and taking precedence on roads, which is amazingly insensitive, but actually attacking the people who can save lives? Why? What is the mind set?
This brings all sorts of concerns about patient privacy into the equation. Should video footage of, for example, someone experiencing a pregnancy loss exist without the patient’s consent? I’m not sure it should.
What’s funny is whoever abuses ambulance staff will see this as a challenge to get better (sneakier) at abusing ambulance staff.
For the small cost of bodycams, we should have lots of people wearing them. Traffic wardens, bouncers, bus drivers, people working around kids, baggage handlers, etc. I feel like there’s loads of practical applications for this technology that could deter or at least help to detect all kinds of abuse.
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This just blows my mind. I have read stories of people resenting ambulances outside residences and taking precedence on roads, which is amazingly insensitive, but actually attacking the people who can save lives? Why? What is the mind set?
This brings all sorts of concerns about patient privacy into the equation. Should video footage of, for example, someone experiencing a pregnancy loss exist without the patient’s consent? I’m not sure it should.
What’s funny is whoever abuses ambulance staff will see this as a challenge to get better (sneakier) at abusing ambulance staff.
For the small cost of bodycams, we should have lots of people wearing them. Traffic wardens, bouncers, bus drivers, people working around kids, baggage handlers, etc. I feel like there’s loads of practical applications for this technology that could deter or at least help to detect all kinds of abuse.