A 26-year-old dental student in Connecticut died in an intensive care unit that was overseen by a remote "tele-health" doctor who pronounced him dead on a video screen, a lawsuit says.
  • AernaLingus [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    63·
    2 months ago

    The family’s legal complaint, which was obtained by Law&Crime, says the ICU and its operators “violated hospital policy because no on-site doctor assessed Mr. Hylton from the time he was admitted to the ICU until after he exhibited seizure-like activity.”

    What the actual fuck? How can it be an intensive care unit if there are literally no fucking doctors taking care of you? Absolutely horrifying.

    • microfiche [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      401·
      2 months ago

      It’s like one of those mechanics places where you rent a stall and some tools and pay some amount of money to be supervised and assisted but instead for major health decisions instead of your Datsun.

    • stink@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      16·
      2 months ago

      I had a pretty similar experience last time I went to the ER. Was violently throwing up all night, partner takes me to the ER in the middle of the night. I get there and the person doing my intake is someone on an iPad, like literally at home talking to me through a screen.

      Waited, and waited, and waited. Guy who was also waiting started getting antsy, he got in a fight of some sort and had head trauma. He started talking (albeit loudly) how he was waiting for hours and he was gonna beat their asses. Guy was definitely incapacitated, was laying down on the floor concussed and shit, instead the staff kicked him out for threatening them after making a man with brain trauma wait to see a doctor for at least 8 hours at that point.

      Around 7am(?) I got to the point where I was so tired I told myself I’d rather die at home than wait in that lobby any longer, so we left lol.

      Ended up getting a $500 bill sent to my mail a week later, just for the intake, even though I talked to the receptionist before I left and she said I wouldn’t get charged lol.

  • christian [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    30·
    2 months ago

    Asked whether Yale New Haven uses the services of tele-health professionals in its hospitals and ICUs, the spokesperson reportedly said the model “enhances critically ill patients by pairing advanced virtual monitoring with expert bedside teams.”

    Is there anyone in a spokesperson role who understands how much worse an answer like this sounds compared to just saying “Yes”?

    edit: It’s like an hour later and I’m still floored by that line. Reading this article and getting to that line at the end is like being upset that the dystopia measurements are getting so high and then realizing I left off the exponent.

    • bunnossin [she/her, it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
      26·
      2 months ago

      “enhances critically ill patients”. Not even “enhances the treatment of critically ill patients”. It just “enhances” them. I guess it’s enhancing their critical illness, judging by the subject of the article.

    • Biggay [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      13·
      2 months ago

      the problem with you is you can read, a reporter cant just put yes if they answer the question like this, and no dipshit newspaper reader is going to be able to parse this.

  • allende2001@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    Meanwhile in China…

    Chinese doctors have successfully performed an intercontinental, ultra-long-distance remote liver cancer resection from France on an 80-year-old patient 10,000 kilometers away in east China’s Hangzhou. The operation utilizing a homegrown remote surgery robot was completed in just 50 minutes

    Source: https://xcancel.com/PDChina/status/1947552193273377020

  • KuroXppi [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    They’ll put a scene like this in Idiocracy 2 the Idiocracning, and blame it on the patients for choosing to go to the drive-thru hospital not the gutting of public health by capitalism