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A screen shows surveillance camera footage from an operating room at the Gyeonggi Provincial Medical Center’s Ansung Hospital. (Gyeonggi Provincial Government) Note: This article was published on : Jul 29, 2020 Debate has resurfaced over the need for surveillance cameras in hospital operating rooms, with strong support from the ruling party for the mandatory use of cameras to protect the rights of patients. Rep. Kim Nam-kuk of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea and 12 other lawmakers submitted a bill on July 9 that would obligate hospitals to deploy security camera systems inside operating theaters in a bid to prevent medical mistakes, ghost surgeries by underqualified or untrained hospital staff, and sexual assaults on patients under anesthetic. The current operating room rules and system create an imbalance in information between surgeons and patients, Rep. Kim argues. Patients are unconscious while under anesthesia, and no one else is allowed to enter the operating room to support...

  Transcript: 0 0:05 What keeps us healthy and happy   as we go through life?   If you were going to invest now   in your future best self,   where would you put your time and your energy?   There was a recent survey of millennials   asking them what their most important life goals were,   and over 80 percent said   that a major life goal for them was to get rich.   And another 50 percent of those same young adults   said that another major life goal   was to become famous.   0 0:43 (Laughter)   0 0:44 And we're constantly told to lean in to work, to push harder   and achieve more.   We're given the impression that these are the things that we need to go after   in order to have a good life.   Pictures of entire lives,   of the choices that people make and how those choices work out for them,   those pictures are almost impossible to get.   Most of what we know about human li...