What bothers me are the maudlin videos produced out of someone’s intense, private moment that are then taken out of context and broadcast around the world. What bothers me is how the viewer never learns how the individual came to the decision about their implant, which factors they took into account, whether their medical insurance covered it. Sometimes we don’t even learn their names.
This reminds me of a topic that we learned about in my LGBTQ identities class a couple semesters ago. The topic was the Medical Gaze and how the individual's identity was sort of stripped away from them, while people only focused on "what was wrong" or something that was "abnormal". Similar to what the writer stated, these photos and videos are often broadcasted to the world without the name of the patient/individual being named.