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I totally get what you're saying.
However, it is kind of funny (interesting?) that people will trust that there isn't a hidden camera in the exam room without question, but mistrust someone who has a camera openly displayed, but off, in the exam room. As if the reminder that cameras exist is what negates that trust, not the risk of being recorded.
This is more of a philosophical musing than a defense of wearing a camera into an exam room.
Without evidence, the idea that there's a hidden camera in the exam room is just paranoid speculation. By contrast, this was an actual visible camera in the exam room, and a camera that was obviously the doctor's own personal device. It makes sense to worry more about the camera you know is real.
It comes down to trust, though. Look at it this way: if a doctor wanted to surreptitiously record a patient during a state of undress, would they do it with a camera on their face, or one hidden in the room?
It does come down to trust, and if you walk into my doctor's visit with a camera strapped to your face, you've lost mine. Doesn't matter if it's on or not. I distrust your descion-making abilities on a fundamental level. Plus, if they're the kind of person who would try and film someone without them knowing, they're also the kind of person to lie about it being off. But honestly, they might not even be trying to record surreptitiously, they might do it on accident. I've got a buddy who worked in IT customer support for a medical device company and would tell us horror stories, the amount of American doctors who have absolutely no fucking clue how basic technology works is staggering. Like truly scary, considering how highly we regard them and their presumed intelligence.
The last time you were at the doctor did you ask them if they had their phone on them?
If your proctologist had an OnlyFans-branded go-pro strapped to their head, would you drop trou and bend over?