A Doctor Remotely Told A Patient He Was Going To Die Using A Video-Link Robot (bbc.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday March 9, 2019 @02:34PM from the bedside-manners dept.

dryriver quotes the BBC: A doctor in California told a patient he was going to die using a robot with a video-link screen. Ernest Quintana, 78, was at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Fremont when a doctor — appearing on the robot's screen — informed him that he would die within a few days. A family friend wrote on social media that it was "not the way to show value and compassion to a patient". The hospital says it "regrets falling short" of the family's expectations.

Mr Quintana died the next day.

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INFINITY IS WHAT I WANT, AND I WANT IT NOW! by Anonymous Coward · 2019-03-09 16:26 · Score: 0, Troll

Who's responsible for this finite universe! WHO!? I WANT A NAME, and don't you just tell me "God" or something... phoey! I want INFINITY, not EXCUSES!