Oh, what a shocker! Turns out, recording your doctor’s appointments doesn’t actually lead to a courtroom drama bonanza. Who would’ve thought? In a groundbreaking study that must have had legal teams on the edge of their seats, researchers decided to play detective and see if doctors who hit the record button were more likely to get slapped with malpractice claims. Spoiler alert: they weren’t.

From 2015 to 2017, they sifted through what I can only imagine were mountains of thrilling paperwork, comparing the malpractice claim rates of the camera-shy physicians versus the Steven Spielbergs of the medical world. They defined “users” as those wild, avant-garde doctors who recorded more than the average number of visits. And guess what? Over three years, with 15,254 patients getting their 15 minutes of fame, not a single Oscar-worthy malpractice drama unfolded because of it. The rate of claims didn’t budge. It was like comparing the excitement of watching paint dry to watching grass grow.

And here’s the kicker: of the seven paid claims or lawsuits from 2000 to 2017, none—zilch, nada—were against our filmmaker physicians. It’s almost as if… and stay with me here… video recording clinic visits is actually not the lawsuit magnet it was presumed to be!

But wait, there’s more! According to the powers that be (a.k.a. federal law), patients can go full paparazzi in their clinic encounters without so much as a “by your leave” from their doctor. Ethical conundrums aside, it seems that making the recording process official is a win-win. It’s like discovering that the monster under the bed was just a bunch of dust bunnies—turns out, embracing the boogeyman of video recordings might just be the best thing for everyone involved.