A Bonita research guide
How to check where surgery photos and videos appeared
A post may show real footage while making a misleading claim about who performed the work. Source tracing helps you investigate that claim. It cannot establish consent, copyright ownership or the identity of the operating clinician by itself.
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1. Save the claim privately
Keep the post URL, account name, caption and the date you saw it in your own notes. A repost, an educational example and a claim to have performed surgery are different claims. Do not share patient identities or private medical details.
2. Choose a clear image
Use an image you have permission to share. For a video, open a local clip in Bonita, pause on a distinctive moment and choose Use this moment. Download the prepared frame. Try more than one moment; a cover image does not represent the whole video.
3. Search with Google Lens
Open Google Images, choose Search by image, then Upload a file and select your saved image. On a phone, open Google Lens in the Google app and select the saved image. Inspect results that lead to pages containing the image; a similar-looking face alone is not a match. This search happens on Google, under its own terms.
4. Try a second search with TinEye
Open TinEye and upload the same saved image, or paste a direct image URL. Inspect the matching pages. Its Oldest order means earliest found by TinEye, not necessarily first published or created. Different services can return different leads.
5. Compare the evidence
Open the pages themselves. Compare the image, account, caption, credits and any visible publication dates. Keep each date beside the page that supports it. A matching image is a lead, not proof of who performed the procedure. Private, edited, deleted or newly posted material may be missing from search results.
6. Ask before concluding
Ask the practice where it first published the work and how it can substantiate the claim being made. Reuse may be authorized. The oldest result you find can itself be a repost, and no matches do not prove originality. If the evidence is inconclusive, leave the question open.
Sources to open
- Google: search with an image (desktop and mobile instructions) (opens a new tab)
- TinEye: how to search (opens a new tab)
- TinEye: what first found means (opens a new tab)
This is research education, not individualized medical advice.
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