Medical privacy

Questions
1

if you can happen to find a doctor that keeps your information on paper and takes cash, it isn’t enough…

how are you dealing with them typing up reports on their computers which save to the cloud?

how are you dealing with them having their smart phone and smart watch in the room with you as you speak? or smart cameras in the lobby?

how are you dealing with them when they need to write a prescription which is digitized in many regions now?

how are you dealing with lab/blood work when requested? most labs want ID and/or face scans

or when you need an MRI/CT scan and have to go to a hospital which wants ID and/or face scans?

or new eyeglass prescription which is all digitized machinery?

are we just supposed to go without any healthcare if we want privacy?

i don’t like living like this

2

Please get mental health help, phones aren’t recording you.

Get a threat model, see therapist, don’t read the news/reddit for a month.

3

please kindly do not assume I am unwell.
there is literally another thread here about a doctor making an AI slop infographic for a fellow member here.
AI scribes are HUGE business right now in the medical field.
no phone/watch in room == good guarantee that they aren’t recording audio for use in one of these “solutions”.

in the context of “phones”, implying the phone vendor recording, we do know that their wake words false positive, and text does frequently get processed on their servers even if it is just for a query and not the actual speech processing.
we’ve seen cases where these recordings are leaked or are processed by actual people.

I’ve been around many people where we’re just causally chatting and next thing you know siri says “here I found this on the web”, implying it sent off what we just said to google search. if you don’t see this as a valid concern and instead want to write it off as being psychotic, that is unkind of you and I ask you to re-evaluate yourself.

4

I ignore it.

I ignore it.

I wait until they write the prescription.

I either accept the terms of service or refuse it.

I had laser eye surgery, so I do not need eyeglasses.

I cannot answer that question for everyone.

5

@unwelled I suggest using this forum’s search feature and reading these recent threads.

6

@beantaco
I already read those. I even mentioned your third link in a post above.
These were more targeted questions I was hoping to hear how anyone here dealt with them specifically, hence the separate thread.