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Capture the Miracle
Your Baby's Birth on Video
By Sharon Waldrop
Dr. Torbati senses that the trend for video cameras in the delivery room has been consistent during the past decade. Many patients still ask him if they can bring one along on their special day. He always allows it.
Dianne S. Moore is a nurse-midwife and health care consultant in Irvington, N.Y. Moore allows her patients to videotape their babies' births as long as they agree to four stipulations: "One, the patient and staff must have written consent to having the videotaping done. Two, the patient or whomever is doing the filming is to ask me before turning on the camera so that I know it is on. Three, the camera needs to be turned off when I ask. And four, the patient, and those with the cameras, are to agree to give me a copy of the tape and any still pictures."
"Childbirth is unpredictable," says Moore, who is also chief executive officer of MOOREINFO Inc. and an expert medical witness. "Things can go wrong and go wrong rapidly. Nature makes mistakes, and unfortunately the medical practitioner is often blamed even if he or she did nothing wrong during the labor or delivery.
"In a court of law, the jurors are normally the peers of the patient, not the providers. They do not know what is right and what is wrong during a delivery or in providing appropriate medical care," Moore says. Lawsuits cost doctors, hospitals and insurance companies millions of dollars, and many health care providers feel that a jury may be more sympathetic to the patient bringing the lawsuit.
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