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Because hidden cameras aren't common and given the legality of the situation, the risk to any medical professional to try and sneak in and use a hidden camera is extremely high. It's not impossible, it's just extremely unlikely. There are many many things in life that can be trusted because the odds are extremely favorable, and trusting that there aren't hidden cameras in a doctor's office is one of them.
Again, to not trust this reality is conspiracy level insanity. If you wanted, you can go in and sweep a medical room for hidden cameras if you're so insecure that that's what's needed for piece of mind, but everyone will think you're loony tunes.
What do you think of when you see the phrase "hidden camera" and why doesn't that include a concealed phone?
Did I ever say it doesn't include concealed phones? Do you sweep for hidden cameras, including concealed phones everytime you go to the doctor?
Again, it has happened, but when it's single digit instances out of thousands or millions of doctors, that's almost never.
You said "hidden cameras aren't common" but cameras that can be easily hidden are extremely common. If I misunderstood what you meant when you said they weren't common, I apologize.
No, I don't because I trust my doctor.
Which was my original point; it's interesting that people have two seemingly different types of trust with their doctor. They, apparently, trust them not to be a secret creep, but they don't seem to trust them not to be a blatant creep.
It reminds me of some saying I read once that goes something like "If you tell a person there are a billion stars in the night sky, they'll take your word for it, but if you tell that person there's wet paint on a bench, they'll have to touch it to believe you."
It's just an interesting phenomenon, that the same person can be trusted and not trusted regarding essentially the same action.
I see what you're saying. When I say not common, I mean I trust that it's not common or likely for a doctor to secretly use a phone or other hidden camera, whatever method that may be, to record, not that the phones themselves are uncommon.
I think one big difference between the two is I trust my doctor, but if they walked in with a recording device on their face I would immediately lose all of that trust even if they said it wasn't recording. If I saw my doctor walk in with their phone camera exposed, I would also have concerns, but less than the glasses, mostly because the glasses have one function, and that's recording. Seeing a phone would mean there could be malicious behavior, but not necessarily. It would be something that I would bring up if noticed.
At the end of the day, you have to have some level of trust or you'll go crazy. It's easy to trust that your doctor isn't secretly recording you, but not so much when they're exposing the camera to you.