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51. "Ernest Quintana's family...were devastated when a robot machine rolled into his room..."

Sat Mar 9, 2019, 09:35 PM

Mar 2019

"...in the intensive care unit that night and a doctor told the 78-year-old patient by video call he would likely die within days."

Sounds like a big deal to me.

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California man learns he's dying from doctor on robot video [View all] Judi Lynn Mar 2019 OP

Sheesh. What a heartless way to treat a patient and his family. nt SunSeeker Mar 2019 #1

To the hospital's defense, they only sent in the bestest of celebrity robot. TheBlackAdder Mar 2019 #58

LOL SunSeeker Mar 2019 #59

Not surprised it was Kaiser. lilactime Mar 2019 #2

Yep, not surprised at all. Tikki Mar 2019 #3

That was the first thing that came to me. Haggis for Breakfast Mar 2019 #6

Holy shit. I was going to say it was probably Kaiser (without reading the article)... C Moon Mar 2019 #11

Me either. n/t MBS Mar 2019 #14

+1 2naSalit Mar 2019 #22

Same here customerserviceguy Mar 2019 #30

+1,000 !! CountAllVotes Mar 2019 #49

Wow. Kaiser, your bedside nabber sucks. iluvtennis Mar 2019 #4

Fucking Kaiser...no surprise there. I've had Kaiser for 35 years now, because PatrickforO Mar 2019 #5

Now will do just fine. It's so desperately needed. n/t Judi Lynn Mar 2019 #7

They're all like that. Honeycombe8 Mar 2019 #18

To be fair LogicFirst Mar 2019 #28

Oh, I made it to Medicare. Honeycombe8 Mar 2019 #50

Look for more of this, it'll be normalized like other breaches appalachiablue Mar 2019 #8

Kaiser Dem2theMax Mar 2019 #9

UNless they want to live in Idaho... 2naSalit Mar 2019 #23

Wow. No surprise from Kaiser. But, wow. Curtis Mar 2019 #10

I learnt it from the doctors computers.. TomVilmer Mar 2019 #12

Yay! Glad you're still here lostnfound Mar 2019 #15

Thanx! TomVilmer Mar 2019 #19

That's wonderful... lostnfound Mar 2019 #44

"regret falling short" of the patient's expectations. Says it all. Regret. marble falls Mar 2019 #13

It seems like the future we were Turbineguy Mar 2019 #16

Wow. Words escape me. Talk about being just a number and not a person. nt Honeycombe8 Mar 2019 #17

From tbe article...Michelle Gaskill-Hames, senior vice president of Kaiser Permanente Greater Southe irisblue Mar 2019 #20

"tele-visit" ????? Iggo Mar 2019 #37

a sub unit of tele-medicine irisblue Mar 2019 #38

Easy to say if you live within driving distance of a hospital Recursion Mar 2019 #60

And I thought getting told by phone "Uh, we see a gigantic lung and liver tumor".... moriah Mar 2019 #62

tRumpsters are always crying about death panels, I guess their rightwing for profit healthcare yaesu Mar 2019 #21

+1 2naSalit Mar 2019 #24

If it was a rich white patient you can bet they wouldn't have used a robot. OregonBlue Mar 2019 #34

That is true, just like our justice system, there is a special tier for those who have big bucks. nt yaesu Mar 2019 #35

Obamacare is the free market's last chance to take care of the US. They have two years. mjvpi Mar 2019 #25

"Regret falling short".... 'of the patient's expectations'.......... regrettable apology. BlancheSplanchnik Mar 2019 #26

Are there no doctors in Fremont? UpInArms Mar 2019 #27

Wow. That was exceedingly cold. Chemisse Mar 2019 #29

They don't give a damn about the the patients, dying or otherwise workinclasszero Mar 2019 #31

This is what our world of health care has come to. We need change now. FM123 Mar 2019 #32

I don't know why Kaiser has such a bad rap. I have had nothin but caring and ptofessional Dream Girl Mar 2019 #33

From my own experience with the medical Maxheader Mar 2019 #36

"..."regret falling short" of the patient's expectations."" yonder Mar 2019 #39

Fuck his regret. Iggo Mar 2019 #42

what's wrong with it? eezapata Mar 2019 #40

Wow. Iggo Mar 2019 #43

It's not limited to machines..... aka-chmeee Mar 2019 #41

This dovetails along with us not having a right to healthcare in this country. area51 Mar 2019 #45

The patient couldn't even hear the robot well because the robot couldn't move in close enough. suffragette Mar 2019 #46

It won't be too long until we get Terminators MrScorpio Mar 2019 #47

It's not like this was Dr. Max Headroom ... it was a live video call, with a real, remote doctor SFnomad Mar 2019 #48

"Ernest Quintana's family...were devastated when a robot machine rolled into his room..." Iggo Mar 2019 #51

"[The] family knew [Ernest] was dying of chronic lung disease when he was taken by ambulance SFnomad Mar 2019 #53

Yeah, it's Ernest Quintana's fault for having higher expectations that he expected to be NBachers Mar 2019 #52

And then the doctor packed his Golf Clubs into his BMW/Audi and went golfing like nothing happened. ansible Mar 2019 #54

Well, that's pretty much the opposite of the movie Patch Adams. Xolodno Mar 2019 #55

Telemedicine has its place Sgent Mar 2019 #56

When I compare this to how my dad went (pancreatic cancer), it raises the hair on my neck DFW Mar 2019 #57

So, should the remote doctor *not* have told them his prognonsis? Recursion Mar 2019 #61