A Boring Dystopia

This would never happen to people who write the laws so it's not a priority.

It's probably staffed by Nurse Practitioners. They do a lot of stuff that used to be handled by doctors, even my primary care provider is a NP and not a Dr.

teledocs, and equity firms have been snatching up doctors all over the place, this hospital is likely part of a firm that does this, they can just staff 1 or few doctors in a hospital, and use teledoc soley.

I'm willing to bet his family can likely win their lawsuit . Hopefully that will be costly enough to reverse this bullshit.

It’s a body building and strong man contest.

This should have been such a straightforward case too.

Mr. Hylton's condition deteriorated in the ICU, and despite orders, there are no CIWA assessments, no intake/output monitoring, and no MD assessments for pain and/or change in mental status despite the RN's non-contemporaneous note indicating mental status change in a patient diagnosed with alcohol withdrawal and a history of alcohol withdrawal seizures for which he had "previously been given Keppra."

Hylton, who was admitted around 11 a.m., became unresponsive early the next morning around 4:30 a.m., the complaint says.

"Mr. Hylton slid down in bed, his eyes rolled back and he … exhibited seizure-like activity, vomited, became bradycardic and code was called," the complaint alleges. "He was intubated, but he could not be resuscitated, and he was pronounced dead."

What the fuck were they even trying to do? Some kind of tough love/cold turkey approach? Honestly wouldn't be surprised bc I've heard a lot of ignorant pieces of shit suggest that should be standard protocol for opiate withdrawal.

Aside from that being intentionally and unnecessarily cruel, there's this tricky thing about alcohol withdrawal vs withdrawal from other "more serious" substances, where you can literally fucking die. That's exactly what happened.

See, when I first started hearing of those remote control surgical robots, it was sold to me like "They're for remote places where you can't quickly get to a metropolitan hospital, like the South Pole research station, or Nome Alaska, or the space station. Someone in Nome goes down with gallstones in the winter, getting them to Anchorage may be a problem, this would allow a doctor to remote in care that wouldn't otherwise be available."

That was, of course, bullshit.

I shudder to think about my surgeon having to deal with a 400ms ping to the fucking robot cutting me open and how badly that could go...

It's like an ongoing slow motion trainwreck and I can't help but stare

taxes are mostly subsidizing the companies too, and patients never see it being used for them.

While you were dicking around, he was studying the tooth!

If tele-healthcare was the same as in person then no one would need to go to a doctor, much less fly anywhere

People get travel warnings about american "healthcare".

RNs can get the vitals that allows a pronouncement. I do it regularly for hospice folks and it certainly ain't my name on the death certificate. Having an RN verify vitals for an active code is a bit weird though. But so is running a code through telehealth.

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.

What does "peeling this guy off the ceiling" mean in this context?