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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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...
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.
...the designer benzodiazapines are taking the symptoms your describing to a whole new level.
The equivalent of thousands of alprazolam tablets can be acquired for a few hundred bucks. Addicts think they hit the jackpot when they get access to them, but they can be outright killed by the withdrawal. There is no ceiling for GABA A tolerance, so there is no ceiling for the withdrawal.
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.
No, that was the pitch. I remember it just like you do.
It just...isn't working like that right now.
Doesn't mean the technology can't do that. Just means there's capitalism in the way.
"This is the song that never ends...it just goes on and on my friend"
See you're just thinking of pro-social applications for tech. Nothing wrong with that. One day the world will be better and we'll need creativity and positivity rather than nihilism. In the meantime, some cynicism is warranted.
Wasn't me doing the thinking, that's what I was told this tech was developed for.
It wasn't. It was designed to kill a dental student in an ICU devoid of actual medical professionals.
I'd wager a guess that the designer had what you described in mind, but someone else did not.
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.
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
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.
I almost got detained for bringing Exploding Kittens in my luggage. The game meows when you open the lid, so the device looked really suspicious. And the name on the front didn't help.
Shit fucking game, by the way.
I had horrible withdrawals from getting off of Paxil about a year and a half ago. I wound up in the Emergency room for a psych eval and after a few minutes with nurses checking my vitals and a doctor glancing at the results, they stuck me in a room with a screen to telehealth with a social worker for 30 minutes. I left feeling as sick and hopeless as when I came in. $750 after insurance.
So you got the platinum special. I got injected with some unknown disease and tagged for scientific research at a later date for $1,000 after insurance.
Same it ;was Gardasil the HPV vaccine given to me in my teens but NEVER told my mom I was a guinea pig and we were the first to test.
I got PSOS and my other friends either got that or endometriosis!
The American healthcare system is fucked! Never got any compensation or anything for it just a lifetime of health issues. Also, found out the drug I need is $500 a month and takes $3 to make! Fuck the pharmaceutical companies they’re just as bad as the government. They are basically legal drug cartel!!!
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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.
We already pay enough taxes to cover universal healthcare.
It's just not spent on that.
its going to defense budget.
Their insurance is better than yours they won't suffer this until it doesn't matter much and their vote doesn't really count anymore.
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How is it legal to have an ICU that isn’t staffed by a single doctor?
The bourgeoisie does not care if the working class dies so long as they are maximizing profits and continuing to expand their ownership.
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.
For 1/10 of the pay.
More like dr make twice the pay than np because dr requires 10x more hours to be certified over a np. Also the family will be sueing the dr not the np for medical malpractice here.
Oh, not that a doctors pay isn't justified (and still too less, for the requirements). But this here seems a saving money on the cost of quality, only the patient suffers from case.
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And have the yacht-class pay doctors to help the non yacht class?
This would never happen to people who write the laws so it's not a priority.
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First thought: "Must be USA". opened the link just to check and was not ~~dissapointed~~ wrong
The US is such a dumb fucking nation, I just cannot believe half this shit
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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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Once again the Bigly Beautiful Bill encourages survival of the fittest, puh-raise JEE-zuz-ah!
Great. We pay into health care that doesn’t offer physical care anymore.
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