24/02/2026
As doctors, our first duty is to the patient on the table — not the audience online.
The foundation of our profession is the Hippocratic Oath — to do no harm, to respect confidentiality, and to act in the best interest of the patient. Recording or making videos during surgery for social media content raises serious ethical concerns.
🔹 Patient Privacy Comes First
Even with consent, surgery is a vulnerable moment. Patients deserve dignity, confidentiality, and respect — not exposure.
🔹 Focus Must Be 100% on the Procedure
Surgery demands absolute concentration, precision, and teamwork. Any distraction — even for a few seconds — can increase the risk of complications.
🔹 Professionalism Over Popularity
Medicine is a noble profession, not a platform for likes, reels, or followers. Trust once broken is very hard to rebuild.
🔹 Ethics Before Engagement
Educational recordings in controlled, consented, academic settings are different. But casual or promotional recording during active surgery sends the wrong message about our priorities.
Surgery is about healing, not highlighting.
Care should never compete with content.
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