Numi – "Say Everything!"

From Main Street to Wall Street, high-rise office buildings to beach front bungalows, Big Brother is watching us everywhere we go; or is he?

It seems no matter what you do for a living, or for that matter where your career or even your life may happen to take you these days. You can bet you’ve been caught somewhere on someones camera. Well, that is unless your job is in the local Hospital Operating Room. Outside of the occasional documentary, or reality show, when have you even heard about a proposal to put cameras in the operating rooms of hospitals as a SOP? (Standard Operating Procedure.) Although there are plenty to monitor inventories and play hallway monitor.

In my most recent employ I was working for a Security (not to be confused with Securities) company in New York City. Installing security cameras and CAS (Card Access Systems) which not only record your daily activities walking around and about. But record your every movement throughout the day. What time you entered the building, what time you entered and exited your floor, the elevator, and your office etc. I have even been privy to the installation of microphones in bathrooms!

Whether you work at McDonald’s, Macy’s or Madison Square Garden. From the halls, vestibules and cafeterias of the average everyday office, public or private. To the street corners, loading docks, subways, trains, planes and buses. The “Eye in the Sky” is upon us. And let us not of course forget how safe and secure it is being an employee in a government run facility, even better yet. You’re being watched!

If you think it’s only for your personal protection, safety and security, better think again. It’s your actions, in-actions, and reactions that are also under close watch and scrutiny. Isn’t that also what it’s really all about in some in-secure security way. When something unforeseen, tragic, malicious or obscene occurs, triggering the need to divvy up the questions of Legal Liability? To help settle the he said, she said, types of indiscriminate discrepancies. Isn’t that in fact what the DVR (Digital Video Recorder) was intended for anyway?

Hell, they’re even drafting legislation to make alcohol breathalyzers part of the standard equipment in your automobile. Why is it then that the most humanly critical, and personally sensitive of all professions has seemed to escape the new  “Tattle-Tale Technology.”

I don’t know about you, but if I have to subject myself to be watched picking my nose at my desk. Getting a traffic ticket in the mail because the camera on the corner got my license plate number when I made that Right-Turn-On-Red. Or breath into a hose in my car to ensure I’m sober enough to drive down to the neighborhood store for milk and some bread. I sure as hell expect the same types of security and preventative measures to include the guy that’s about to slice me wide open when I’m in a drug induced vegetative state, stretched out like some Crucifixion unable to question, comment or object.

Every year there are thousands of cases, malpractice, accidents and injuries etc. Be it caused from blatant negligence, or some other form of arbitrary anomalies. But somehow, someway, the medical profession has still managed to preclude itself from something the rest of us have learned to accept as just another average ordinary day.

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