A 26-year-old dental student in Connecticut died in an intensive care unit that was overseen by a remote "tele-health" doctor who pronounced him dead on a video screen, a lawsuit says.
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.
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.
I am getting fucked tho, but it’s not the NP’s fault. It’s the goddamn admins that decided patients should only get fifteen minutes for a yearly physical, including pap smear.
They’ve turned primary care into a referral machine, but there’s nobody to coordinate care or collate results. I’ve got a stack of diagnoses from multiple specialists, but they give out conflicting advice. Like, I’ve got an EDS diagnosis from a rheumatologist who told me to take ibuprofen for my joint pain because tylenol doesn’t help with inflammation, but I’ve also got intestinal ulcers that my gastroenterologist says comes from taking NSAIDs, and I should take tylenol instead. Fucking kill me.
Neither of them was wrong, really. The best option was ibuprofen, since it’s pain relief and anti-inflammatory. But because you developed ulcers that ibuprofen can irritate, the best option is just pain management with something like Tylenol.
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 🫡
teledocs, and equity firms have been snatching up doctors all over the place, this hospital is likely part of a firm that does this, they can just staff 1 or few doctors in a hospital, and use teledoc soley.
i first read this complaint on one of the medical subs once, the poster said wtf she cant find any private doctors, and it was explained that private equity was buying them all up, and teledocs too.
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.
Literally the anime Monster lol
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 1/5 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.
You consider that you may be getting fucked, then?
The best experience I’ve had with a family practice doctor was the few years that I had a nurse practitioner, much more thorough and attentive.
I am getting fucked tho, but it’s not the NP’s fault. It’s the goddamn admins that decided patients should only get fifteen minutes for a yearly physical, including pap smear.
They’ve turned primary care into a referral machine, but there’s nobody to coordinate care or collate results. I’ve got a stack of diagnoses from multiple specialists, but they give out conflicting advice. Like, I’ve got an EDS diagnosis from a rheumatologist who told me to take ibuprofen for my joint pain because tylenol doesn’t help with inflammation, but I’ve also got intestinal ulcers that my gastroenterologist says comes from taking NSAIDs, and I should take tylenol instead. Fucking kill me.
That’s insane, a fifteen minute visit is a joke.
Neither of them was wrong, really. The best option was ibuprofen, since it’s pain relief and anti-inflammatory. But because you developed ulcers that ibuprofen can irritate, the best option is just pain management with something like Tylenol.
I mean the answers are out there but they include ridiculously expensive biologics that no insurance wants to cover.
No, the rheumatologist should have known that nsaids cause gastro ulcers and not to prescribe them. They committed malpractice.
Lol. You fucking idiot, it doesn’t do that to everyone. “Malpractice for prescribing ibuprofen” hahaha
And this is why you’re not in medicine.
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 🫡
The bourgeoisie does not care if the working class dies so long as they are maximizing profits and continuing to expand their ownership.
teledocs, and equity firms have been snatching up doctors all over the place, this hospital is likely part of a firm that does this, they can just staff 1 or few doctors in a hospital, and use teledoc soley.
The end result is people getting terrible care as this young man did.
i first read this complaint on one of the medical subs once, the poster said wtf she cant find any private doctors, and it was explained that private equity was buying them all up, and teledocs too.
And have the yacht-class pay doctors to help the non yacht class?
Why would it not be? Why would that law be enforced if it existed?