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IDEAS THAT WORK
VIDEO RECORDING
Give Patients Video of Their Surgeries
When I perform a laparoscopic operation, I download the video that's displayed on the operating-room monitor from the camera at the tip of the laparoscope and give it to
patients afterward on a thumbdrive. Some like to watch it. Some show it to their referring doctor. And some smartly upload it to their private electronic health records in the cloud like healthvault.com or dossia.org.
Sharing videos with patients may be associated with improved patient satisfaction
because doing so embodies a broader spirit of medical
transparency.
A couple of notes of caution: First, inform patients that their medical procedure will
be recorded and give them
the option to decline. If
they opt to receive a copy of their procedure
TURN RECORD BUTTON ON Patients appreciate leaving surgery with video recordings of their surgeries, says surgeon and best-selling author Martin A. Makary, MD, MPH.
