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CTBH in the News! CTBH Faculty Affiliate Paul Barr interviewed for his work in Open Recordings in Psychology Today

‘Capturing Recordings of Your Medical Encounters. Are some discussions too important not to record?’ (Psychology Today – April 22, 2021 – Full Article)

Article Excerpt: … with colleagues at the Preference Laboratory in Dartmouth, (Dr. Paul Barr) began exploring the nascent phenomenon of patients secretly recording their physician visits. Then, after attending a 2014 lecture given by Sigel Bell of the Open Notes research group (more here), Barr started to see huge potential benefits in openly recorded clinic visits and started to learn more about the idea. A theme that kept popping up was that while many patients felt uncomfortable about making secret recordings, they did so anyway because “some discussions were too important not to record.”