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    NHS staff harassed by members of public filming them with phones and threatening to post footage online
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    NHS staff harassed by members of public filming them with phones and threatening to post footage online

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    1. CarcasticSunt42O on

      Trick one, I’m sure many annoying people do it when people just trying to do their jobs and I see why that’s a problem.

      On the other hand you hear of family members catching nurses abusing elderly patients with a well planted hidden camera, so obviously it is a right that is important too.

      Bit of a non story tbh, that’s life

    2. HotelPuzzleheaded654 on

      Hardly surprising when social media has made your average Joe think they’re more of an authority on public health than a trained medical professional.

      I don’t know what the solution is, but someone needs to put these conspiracy theorists back in their box.

      We are living in the age of the inexpert.

    3. Canipaywithclaps on

      Wether it’s right or not I refuse to deal with patients filming (unless for a very specific reason e.g. someone with memory problem). I’m an individual that has to think about my own safety. Posting my face, name and exactly where I work, often in a hateful way (most experiences I’ve had of being filmed are patients with mental illness live streaming or going to post it on their TikTok/Instagram with a load of lies that we legally can’t correct) putting me at risk of online bullying, harassment etc is not something I signed up for. This was most prolific in A&E, but did also see it on the wards.

      Medical staff are now majority women, often have to park a 10-15 minute unlit walk away from the hospital, and leave at strange hours. We already don’t feel safe as it is.

    4. MGLX21 on

      This isn’t just an issue for NHS staff and shouldn’t be framed as such. Anyone can be targeted with this awful treatment.

    5. talligan on

      Knocked on someones car window once because they were completely parked on the sidewalk and it forced me to walk on a busy road to get around them. They got out, threatened to assault me *while* filming it on their phone. Lovely delivery driver, smart too apparently.

      Every chud with a phone thinks they should be filming everyone now because of … Internet points? Idk

    6. KittenDust on

      My husband works in complaints at a hospital. He is constantly shown videos of alleged poor treatment by staff. what they usually show is the person taking the video being a rude and antagonistic arsehole.

    7. bobblebob100 on

      I know staff who have had death threats and homophobic abuse to the point we got the police involved.

    8. Ok_Row_4920 on

      There are posters all over hospitals stating that they won’t tolerate any kind of abuse or harassment so just throw these arseholes out and let them deal with their own issues if they can’t behave themselves.

    9. rwinh on

      Oh good, the film bad-driving-by-the-people-filming-it culture has made its way to healthcare. The people who film a situation that could be avoidable and instead make it ten times worse by adding their own antagonising actions (e.g. they get cut up and instead of taking it on the chin try to cause an accident by speeding and breaking all kinds of traffic rules, escalating the issue proving and solving nothing).

      Same for police issues, where a fight breaks out and the friends of the ones starting the fight think filming a punch up and egging the police on are entirely innocent.

      Some people have seen these reaction videos and think it’s their time to shine. If someone pulls out a phone or camera for the wrong reasons, deny them a consultation or treatment. The only time it’s ever suitable, like others have said, is for those with memory issues or to take notes. Doing it as “evidence” is entirely the wrong behaviour, especially when doctors, nurses and others in medicine already craft a rod for their backs with the amount of paperwork they have to work through.

    10. Background_Ad8814 on

      I always mean to ask, did I miss the debate on whether it’s OK for anybody with a phone to film anybody, anywhere, without permission? Was there a vote? cause nobody asked me

    11. Bean-Penis on

      I remember the days when we were told you weren’t allowed phones in treatment rooms or wards. True or not we didn’t use them. Make it waiting room and canteen/cafe only and if someone refuses they can go get treated privately (obviously emergencies excluded).

    12. eggyfigs on

      I am not a very mild man, and I fully believe that if a person behaves in a confrontational and abusive way their right to treatment should be revoked for a period of time. I have zero sympathy with these people.

    13. MadMuffinMan117 on

      Honestly I wish I had filmed how dangerous the way I was treated by the NHS and I know Manny others who have had similar experiences.

    14. trev2234 on

      I was in the hospital smoking area a few years ago. This guy came running along the road, stood opposite me, and started filming me on his phone. He’d also move up and down the road, then sit back on me. There wasn’t anyone else there, so it was definitely me that was being filmed. He said nothing to me during this, and we were opposite sides of a one way street, so he could easily have spoken to me. Anyway I finished the cig, popped it in the bin, and walked back in. Never saw him again. I assumed it was some mental health issue.

    15. Genetivus on

      Luckily I never had to deal with it, but it’s such a scary thing to be filmed while doing your job

      It puts you on edge – people edit and caption things to misrepresent events all the time, and since we aren’t allowed to defend ourselves it can be incredibly difficult to process

      The interesting thing is, you can tell if a person is the type to do this within minutes of them coming through the door – it rarely correlates with actual poor service