....wow
That timeline reads to me like he was in withdrawal, vomited, and likely aspirated on his own vomit. All due to lack of actual human care in a supposed ICU. I say "supposed", because that shit shouldn't even be legal for tele-health in the first place.
Marketing be like "this service pairs expert remote monitoring with skilled bedside care" and I translate that bullshit as "we farm monitoring jobs to cheaper labor markets and they watch people die, on Zoom".
How is it legal to have an ICU that isn’t staffed by a single doctor?
Fun story:
I once got blocked from a flight by TSA because the inspector said my portable hard drive was an explosive device by looking at it via Facetime over an iPad while they were at an Arnold Schwarzenegger's body building conference instead of at work in the airport.
Great. We pay into health care that doesn’t offer physical care anymore.
People need to be jailed over this
As in the CEO, leadership, management, all involved in setting up and authorizing these procedures, should be jailed
If not, this will just become the norm
And of course it will just become the norm because again, somebody died needlessly and we're not doing shit about it because all the other CEO's still need a gold plated bathtub
I've been waiting for this since the 1990s, surprised it took so long.
Starting in the 90s, much of the administrative duties of a hospital are now done overseas, including chart notes.
The doctors being overseas? Worst case scenario is just starting.
Why would a hospital pay a US physician 200K a year when they can get a doctor from Pakistan to do the same work for 50K a year? They even have surgical robots that can be remotely piloted from anywhere.
It's not prevalent yet, but it will be.
"But people fly here from other countries for healthcare."
How is is legal to pronounce death without directly checking their pulse in person?
That is fucking horrifying.
Non contemporus notes don't really matter (ICU nurse isn't going to write a note while they're peeling this guy off the ceiling) and I'm not familiar with ICU level withdrawal care but I doubt CIWA is helpful in someone like this who's in full blown withdrawal already and going brady with current interventions. CIWA is good for preventing him from getting where he already obviously was.
Once again the Bigly Beautiful Bill encourages survival of the fittest, puh-raise JEE-zuz-ah!
First thought: "Must be USA". opened the link just to check and was not dissapointed wrong
Meanwhile in in the rest of the world we've got conservatives telling us how much more efficient it would be and how much quicker you'd see a doctor if we adopted America's for-profit healthcare system.
I know this is fucked up in general, but am I the only one who's slightly bothered by the description of him as a "dental student"? Maybe I'm overthinking things, but I worry that reporting would look different if it didn't happen to a person of high status.
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