Surgery should be 'routinely videoed' to improve safety in the operating theatre, says a former NHS whistleblower.
Dr Edwin Jesudason, who was frozen out of paediatric surgery after raising concerns about 'avoidable' operative deaths in children, said recording what goes on behind theatre doors should be 'an ethical duty'.
He said: 'Given that video technology already exists in most surgical theatres, there should be a fairly low bar to introducing this more routinely, as long as you obtain patient consent.
'Is it any longer ethical, not to do this? We have black box recorders in plane cockpits that can record everything that's going on. If we chose not to use them, would that be right?'
The medic, who now works for the Scottish NHS, stressed he was speaking in a personal capacity.
Dr Edwin Jesudason believes that operations should be videoed as part of an 'ethical duty'
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