Hospitals Nationwide Combat Employee Camera-Phone Abuse

A rash of incidents in hospitals across the country involving camera phones has led to firings -- and the realization that monitoring the devices in clinical facilities is no easy task. Wired.

"After sorting through red tape, a California hospital has fired nine employees who in April either took or looked at camera-phone photos of a patient's X-ray. Meanwhile, at least three other hospitals across the country are struggling with similar problems.

... In another case at Tri-City Medical, a security guard stopped a secretary from taking a camera-phone picture of a suicidal psychiatric patient. The secretary resigned, Segall said.

And a former respiratory therapist at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego faces felony charges over allegations that he took eight photographs of two bedridden children using a cell phone".

Related incidents from around the world:

-- Russian mother films "gagged babies" in hospital with cameraphone

-- Hospital staffer accused of molesting comatose children and taking cell phone photos of himself in the act

-- Shocking Photos Show Nurses Abusing Infants

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