Posted on 03/08/2019 5:32:52 PM PST by BenLurkin
Quintana's granddaughter, said she was with him in the intensive care unit when a nurse said a doctor would be making his rounds. Wilharm said a robot then arrived in the room and the doctor appeared on a video screen. A hospital spokesperson said a nurse brought the device into the room ....
Wilharm said she was stunned to hear from the doctor by video that her grandfather's lungs were failing and that he didn't have long to live.
...Michelle Gaskill-Hames, senior vice president for Kaiser Permanente in southern Alameda County, said in a statement to NBC News that it was a "highly unusual circumstance."
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
That would kinda bother me.
otoh, the robot may have had better bedside manner than some human ones.
still doesnt bother me as much as the doctor terminator models that tell you you’re going to die, and then the auto-syringe thing starts coming towards you...
At least it wasn’t one of those fortune telling machines at the county fair that you have to put a quarter in.
Long story short.
Pop was always sick. Great guy but heart attack, stroke etc.
Died when i was 14.
Mom was a nurse used to giving him meds.
Before i knew it i was at 5 doctors getting meds for who knows what? She needed a replacement.
Pill and doctor junkie until about 26.
Then I went cold turkey. Dumped all the “medicine”.
The next time I see a doctor will be when I wake up in the ER or something hurts so bad I give in an go to ER.
Hospitals are usually where people go to die.
Wow....the Dr. Is a complete ass and coward...
You tell a man he is dying face to face, not by video....
It could be worse the doctor could have just sent a text.
Misleading. It was a monitor. It’s called telemedicine. I’ve been to several doctors (checkups) where you have a nurse with you and you talk to a doctor in another location.
There are two sides to every story:
The hospital disputed the use of the word “robot” to describe the tele-video technology. Gaskill-Hames said in her statement that the technology allows a small hospital to “have additional specialists” assist with patient care around the clock.
Just wait till Bernie’s medicare-for-all plan kicks in. You’ll be lucky to get an email.
2 years ago in Death Valley Scotty’s Castle got FLOODED, owing to torrential rains.
Patient learns he is dying from robot’s video screen.
Patient says that is awful because he has not yet paid his hospital hill.
Robot gives dying man three more months to live.
Do to the link below and see if it describes what happened to you:
YES.
But but there was always JUST ENOUGH reason to give me meds.
IBS, give me meds. GERD, give me meds. All this at 14 years old.
Got depressed after pop died, who wouldn’t? I was kid. Send me to a shrink and give me THREE meds!
Then you get ache and pains and you get meds.
My mom’s WHOLE LIFE was taking care of my father. She was also a nurse.
When he died, there was no one to give medicine to.
I became pop’s replacement.
This part is true. I was feeling like SEVEN different symptoms of sickness in my mid 20s. I was with my girlfriend. And then I said “NONE of these are real.”
They were ALL gone almost instantaneously. I know that’s hard to swallow as being true but that’s exactly the way it happened.
And since, unless I’m in DIRE pain, there have been no doctors in my life.
Where did you find a disease like that? :)
I NEVER heard of it.
wow.
“When I told my doctor I couldn’t afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.” - Henny Youngman
“Where did you find a disease like that? :)”
.
My Cardiologist is about 75. I’ve known him for 30 years. Saw him recently near the end of the day. He spent about 5 minutes with me, asked me how I was. I said “fine.” He said; “Thank God, It’s been a hell of a day,” and left the room. (They had reviewed the lab work and refilled prescriptions.)
At least it spoke english.
Lazy prick. That’s inexcusable unless he’s at ice station zebra or something.
That Henny Youngman was a treasure. “Doctor, doctor, nobody will talk to me!” The doctor said, “Next!”
In third world countries, going to a hospital is a death sentence... the whole family goes with the patient crying
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