Doctors in the UK are angry because of people filming them on smartphones. A medical organization said patients are secretly using phones to film their hospital visits and their talks with doctors. The videos are then put on social media sites. Doctors have called for a ban on video recording in hospitals. A spokesperson for doctors said the videos affected many health workers. He said there were privacy concerns. He told reporters: "As healthcare professionals, we need to think: Does that recording breach the [privacy] of other patients?"

Medical staff and hospital workers are worried about the videos. They do not want to have videos of them on social media. A union worker spoke about this problem. She said: "We had a member of staff who agreed to take photos for a patient, but when the patient handed over her phone, the member of staff saw that the patient had also been [secretly] recording her." She added: "We wear name badges, so our names will be visible in any video. It makes people feel very uncomfortable." Putting material online also risks making public the private medical data of patients.