One-way glass let supervising doctors observe medical trainees unnoticed

Evidence

Before, he explained, he and the other doctors had needed to hover over the residents’ shoulders to make sure they were providing patients with the right kind of care, which tended to make everyone self-conscious, resident and patient alike. Now the patients, including pregnant women, could have one-on-one consultations with the resident. But there would be something in the room that looked like a mirror, as well as a microphone. My father, or one of the other staff doctors, would sit in a small room next door watching it all through one-way glass, ready to intervene if necessary. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 369

Categorization

• XREF: The one-way glass is the seed image Klein will map onto Bannon watching liberals — the surveillance/observation setup becomes the book’s governing metaphor for the Mirror World.
• SEED: A genealogy of the one-way mirror as surveillance motif could track how observation technologies (Bentham’s panopticon, one-way glass, algorithms watching our feeds) get read differently by left and right.