The family's legal complaint, which was obtained by Law&Crime, says the ICU and its operators "violated hospital policy because no on-site doctor assessed Mr. Hylton from the time he was admitted to the ICU until after he exhibited seizure-like activity."
What the actual fuck? How can it be an intensive care unit if there are literally no fucking doctors taking care of you? Absolutely horrifying.
It's like one of those mechanics places where you rent a stall and some tools and pay some amount of money to be supervised and assisted but instead for major health decisions instead of your Datsun.
Whichever regulatory agency forgot to codify "intensive care units must have doctors" is probably feeling pretty stupid right about now.
The head of that agency is probably feeling really stupid in his beach front house.
I had a pretty similar experience last time I went to the ER. Was violently throwing up all night, partner takes me to the ER in the middle of the night. I get there and the person doing my intake is someone on an iPad, like literally at home talking to me through a screen.
Waited, and waited, and waited. Guy who was also waiting started getting antsy, he got in a fight of some sort and had head trauma. He started talking (albeit loudly) how he was waiting for hours and he was gonna beat their asses. Guy was definitely incapacitated, was laying down on the floor concussed and shit, instead the staff kicked him out for threatening them after making a man with brain trauma wait to see a doctor for at least 8 hours at that point.
Around 7am(?) I got to the point where I was so tired I told myself I'd rather die at home than wait in that lobby any longer, so we left lol.
Ended up getting a $500 bill sent to my mail a week later, just for the intake, even though I talked to the receptionist before I left and she said I wouldn't get charged lol.
What better way to describe the collapse of the US than an alcoholic Ivy League med student dying of withdrawal at an ICU that literally "phoned it in". He might still be alive if he had gone to 7/11 for a 40, goddamn
That kind of alcoholism at 26 is pretty bad. He was going through it
Gonna be weird and funny as time goes on and the "kinda rich" increasingly discover the distinction between themselves and the poor is strictly all in their head.
I know people like that and their delusional worldview is so exhaustingly stupid I just avoid them. Just dick riders for ruling class pedos
They'll put a scene like this in Idiocracy 2 the Idiocracning, and blame it on the patients for choosing to go to the drive-thru hospital not the gutting of public health by capitalism
"Instead, the hospitalist, in this case … never saw the patient," the complaint alleges. "It also appears from the sparse ICU records that the ICU RN was only contacting the tele-ICU service for sedation orders as 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."
The [Connecticut Department of Public Health] agency determined that hospital staff "failed to ensure nursing assessments were conducted in accordance with the physician's order" and "failed to effectively communicate the patient's needs as documented," per the complaint.
Oh it is the nurses' fault. Fire them or give them additional training in how to whatapp the doctor. That'll solve it....
I wonder how much the doc was billing.
Asked whether Yale New Haven uses the services of tele-health professionals in its hospitals and ICUs, the spokesperson reportedly said the model "enhances critically ill patients by pairing advanced virtual monitoring with expert bedside teams."
Is there anyone in a spokesperson role who understands how much worse an answer like this sounds compared to just saying "Yes"?
edit: It's like an hour later and I'm still floored by that line. Reading this article and getting to that line at the end is like being upset that the dystopia measurements are getting so high and then realizing I left off the exponent.
"enhances critically ill patients". Not even "enhances the treatment of critically ill patients". It just "enhances" them. I guess it's enhancing their critical illness, judging by the subject of the article.
the problem with you is you can read, a reporter cant just put yes if they answer the question like this, and no dipshit newspaper reader is going to be able to parse this.
Should've joined the Deprogram Discord where you can ask Hakim for medical advice for just $5 a month.
Welcome to the American Healthcare system, it's already well passed collapsed
Fucking charlatans.
Medical care doesn't work without someone who does the caring.
Meanwhile in China...
Chinese doctors have successfully performed an intercontinental, ultra-long-distance remote liver cancer resection from France on an 80-year-old patient 10,000 kilometers away in east China's Hangzhou. The operation utilizing a homegrown remote surgery robot was completed in just 50 minutes
Source: https://xcancel.com/PDChina/status/1947552193273377020
Hellworld shit.
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