But it was unclear Wednesday whether any criminal behavior was suspected, or whether officials had broken hospital rules.
But they were not watching the screen, and in fact hospital rules included no specific instructions that they do so.
Nor did hospital rules, at the time, permit her to simply give her husband the Sinemet pills on her own.
The hospital rules have infuriated many women, added to the nation's ever-increasing Caesarean rate and set off a bitter debate over who controls childbirth.
A1 Bush on Hospital Rules The Bush administration told doctors and hospitals that they must make every effort to save the lives of premature babies born after failed abortions.
When he explained that he was married to a man, the cardiologist broke hospital rules to allow his partner, Mr. Ball, a chaplain at a different hospital, to visit him.
The book's central claim was that infants and their mothers were hormonally primed in the first hours after birth to form crucial bonds, but that under hospital rules then commonly observed, that process was not allowed to happen.
"The hospital rules are pretty straightforward — there's no video and camera photography up close and personal in either an operating room or a delivery room," said Dr. Jacques Moritz, director of gynecology at St . Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital Center in Manhattan.
He tells her that, while she may be citing hospital rules, he has "the law" on his side, a formulation he repeats to one of the paramedics who approaches the car, saying, "There's a very bad habit here of your policy interfering with my law".
As Costa underwent skin cancer treatment, his faithful pet waited outside in the parking lot, since hospital rules do not permit animals to enter.
