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.
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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.
While you were dicking around, he was studying the tooth!
How would one phrase that if the victim were a urology student?
Studying the nephron? Or the waste management?
How is it legal to have an ICU that isn’t staffed by a single doctor?
This would never happen to people who write the laws so it's not a priority.
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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.
Not American nor am I lacking my own doctor but I generally choose to see a specific NP at my clinic over my doctor since she's able to do everything I'd need my doctor for as well as actually caring to look into my health issues. I went over a decade with crippling digestive issues that I complained about constantly to my doctor but it was always dismissed as anxiety related. It was only the NP who actually cared to get me checked for celiac disease
Not exactly that related of a tangent but just wanted to say bless nurse practitioners 🫡
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The bourgeoisie does not care if the working class dies so long as they are maximizing profits and continuing to expand their ownership.
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....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".
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The US is such a dumb fucking nation, I just cannot believe half this shit
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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.
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Great. We pay into health care that doesn’t offer physical care anymore.
taxes are mostly subsidizing the companies too, and patients never see it being used for them.
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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.
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...
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?
Liability to the hospital if a remote doctor fucks up? Just for starters.
It's also very difficult to manage remote workers. As a result, that $50k Pakistani doctor needs another $50k Pakistani contract manager and a Pakistani HR manager and a nurse who can communicate fluently with both patient and doctor and software that an IT firm needs to maintain and a lawyer to sort out all the messy details of licensing and practice.
At the end of the day, it isn't nearly the cost savings you're promised.
Every outsourcing gambit plays out this way. Which makes it more of a negotiating ploy against local workers. Threatening to outsource is far more profitable than actual outsourcing.
I think now as things advance with AI and the US government is completely corrupt/dysfunctional some company is going to make a med bed with an array of sensors and AI.
One of the oligarchs will bless us with this technology and they will get a shit ton of money from the government, so long as the big guy gets his cut.
Didn't he already put out a fluff video with ai generated images of basically that, like almost a year ago?
Yes that's exactly what I was thinking about!
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How is is legal to pronounce death without directly checking their pulse in person?
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.
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That is fucking horrifying.
Boomers will die this way en masse in nursing homes and even the regular hospital system. They are about to learn first hand the correlation between their precious tax cuts and nursing ratios/turnover.
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