Obstetrician and lawyer Associate Professor Vinay Rane argues that recording consultations could be the last honest way for doctors to protect themselves from lawsuits.

But recordings have their own medicolegal angles, according to Ruanne Brell, senior legal adviser at Avant Mutual. What’s more, she says doctors are worried about patients quietly recording consultations without consent.

Here, she explains the good, the bad and the legal dimensions of recording consultations.

Sometimes clinical information can be a lot for patients to digest. If the news isn’t good, it’s even harder.