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'No on-site doctor': Dental student died in ICU overseen by remote 'tele-health' physician who pronounced him dead on a video screen, lawsuit says (lawandcrime.com)

submitted 1 week ago by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Paramedics (at least in NJ) aren't allowed to pronounce, but they're what's called online care (maybe, it's online something), and so they feed vitals to a doc over the phone, and the doc says okay call it.

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Medics can pronounce in the field in Florida for "injuries incompatible with life", think rigor mortis, decapatations, already rotting corpses, etc

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

That's fair and we can do that in Jersey as well (and I'm just an EMT). Obvious signs of mortality it was referred to as back in 2003 or 2004 when I first got my EMT.