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In reply to the discussion: California man learns he's dying from doctor on robot video [View all]yonder
(9,663 posts)39. "..."regret falling short" of the patient's expectations.""
It sounds like they're placing blame on the patient. It's not only the patient's expectations.
How about societal expectations and
moral expectations and
human expectations and
common sense expectations and
cultural expectations and
professional expectations and
institutional expectations and
historical expectations and
this list could go on and on. If "corporations are people", Kaiser fell short of being part of the human race here. This is what chasing corporate wealth for the stockholder's benefit looks like. It's fucking wealth management they're practicing, not health management.
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To the hospital's defense, they only sent in the bestest of celebrity robot.
TheBlackAdder
Mar 2019
#58
Holy shit. I was going to say it was probably Kaiser (without reading the article)...
C Moon
Mar 2019
#11
Fucking Kaiser...no surprise there. I've had Kaiser for 35 years now, because
PatrickforO
Mar 2019
#5
"regret falling short" of the patient's expectations. Says it all. Regret.
marble falls
Mar 2019
#13
From tbe article...Michelle Gaskill-Hames, senior vice president of Kaiser Permanente Greater Southe
irisblue
Mar 2019
#20
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
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
I don't know why Kaiser has such a bad rap. I have had nothin but caring and ptofessional
Dream Girl
Mar 2019
#33
The patient couldn't even hear the robot well because the robot couldn't move in close enough.
suffragette
Mar 2019
#46
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