u/DevorDEV

​

Before the story, some context because people outside India might find parts of this confusing.

I’m giving this much context because I posted a shorter version of this story before, and a lot of people got confused and started asking how any of this was even possible. Things like “How did someone enter the X-ray room?”, “Aren’t there strict protocols?” etc. So I thought I should explain the setup and situation properly this time.

I'm a DMRT student doing my course in a government college and hospital and we do hospital duty as part of our training. Also, this happened in a small-city government hospital in India. Patient flow here is honestly crazy. On some days there are so many people that maintaining perfect control over every room and every person becomes difficult. Anyone who has been to a crowded government hospital here probably knows what I mean.

Another thing people might get confused about: our X-ray setup has two rooms. One is the X-ray room itself, where the patient stands/lies down and positioning is done with the detector and tube. The second room is the control/exposure room where the computer is and from where we give the exposure. These rooms are connected through a viewing window.

Now the actual story.

A young woman came for an X-ray. I was doing the positioning process and helping place her hand properly for the scan. That’s when I noticed a man around 50 years old had entered the X-ray room behind her. For context, he wasn't some random visitor — he was also there for his own chest X-ray and was waiting for his turn after the woman. Then I went into the exposure/control room.

At first I didn’t think much of it. But then I noticed he was holding his phone in a weird way and secretly taking pictures of the girl from behind. That instantly felt wrong. I immediately informed the staff and we confronted him. We checked his phone and found multiple pictures. There were photos of the girl, and one picture had also been taken while I was positioning her, so I was in that photo too.

We deleted all of them ourselves — from the gallery and even from the recently deleted/bin folder.

After that, we did his chest X-ray too since he was there as a patient. But after his x ray when we were talking to him, the guy suddenly changed his tone and started acting important. He started saying, I am a reporter, what is your name.

By that point the staffs were already irritated, so one of the staffs just replied: he don't have any name, your x ray is done, please leave now.

And before people ask why we didn’t turn this into a huge scene or take some dramatic action right there: this is a small-city government hospital with an extremely heavy patient load. We regularly get a lot of patients, including critical cases, and things move very fast. We confronted him, checked his phone, made sure the photos were deleted, and handled the situation immediately. In a setup like that, it’s not always practically possible to stop everything and spend a huge amount of time on one incident while dozens of patients are waiting.

The whole thing was creepy. Hospitals are places where people are already uncomfortable and vulnerable. Secretly taking pictures of patients there is just messed up.

I’m doing radiology training, so we regularly do duty at a hospital. A few days ago, something really weird happened during my shift.

A young woman came for an X-ray. I was doing the normal positioning procedure and asked her to place her hand properly on the couch. While setting things up, I went inside the exposure room.

That’s when I noticed a man, probably around 50 years old, who had entered the radiology room behind her. At first I didn’t think much of it, but then I realized he was secretly taking pictures of the girl from behind.

Then I noticed something else — he had also taken a picture while I was positioning the patient, so I was in the picture too.

I immediately informed the staff and we confronted him. We checked his phone and found the pictures. We deleted every photo ourselves — from the gallery and even from the recently deleted/bin section.

After getting caught, he suddenly switched his behavior and started saying, “I’m a reporter. What’s your name?”

By then I was already irritated. I just said, “I don’t have a name. Your X-ray is done, now please leave.”

The whole thing felt incredibly creepy. Hospitals are places where people are already uncomfortable and vulnerable. Secretly taking pictures of patients there is just messed up.

Some people seriously need to chill.