Is there a way to recover deleted photos on my phone? (Details below...)

While she is correct that it is illegal for you to have access to another patient's information without their consent ... The instant they hooked your father up to that IV, it became part of his medical record.  So if you have permission to access his medical information, you have every right to take the picture and keep it.

I would also suggest you immediately contact the hospital's "Quality Control" department or "Administration", and ask them what they are going to do about your dad being given someone else's IV.

As to recovering the photo ... It depends on your phone and carrier.  I would suggest contacting them.  But if you don't automatically upload your photos, they're probably deleted for good.

So I am at the hospital with my dad. I look up at his IV and see a label with a birthday that wasn't my dad's. THE LABELS WERE FOR ANOTHER PATIENT ON MY DADS MEDICATION BAGS WHICH ONE BAG ALREADY WENT INTO HIM LAST NIGHT! So I immediately call for the nurse to explain to me WHY someone else's labels are on my dad's medicine! While waiting I took pictures with my camera. Then took pictures with my phone camera just in case. The nurse freaked out and saw me holding my phone and asked me if I took pictures. I said yah but they weren't very good. She told me I had to delete them because it had someone else's patient info on them. I asked well can you show me that this medication IS suppose to be my dads?!!? She said she would show me as soon as I deleted them. So I did. The medication was ordered for him. Now Yinny here is photo obsessed and she had no clue I took pictures first on my regular camera which I WILL NOT delete. But in my opinion the pictures on my phone were a tad bit better lighting. (I have one real good one on my regular camera.) I want my deleted ones back from my phone though.