Poor guy in ICU, told Dr is going to make rounds. Robot w video screen comes in and tells him his lungs are failing and he might not make it home.
What a terrible way to hear the end is near.
What a terrible way to hear the end is near.
OT; Man gets news he is dying...by robot!
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I mean... it was a doctor just he was not physically there.
Bad news has been delivered via electronic means for over 100 years. This isnt new.
I imagine the first person to receive bad news via telegraph was equally shocked.
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I'm not a litigious person, but if there was some way I could sue the living sh!t out of that hospital, I would. Especially after reading some of the posts of the life and death issues people on here are dealing with in real life.
Could you imagine that you had a parent or grandparent that was going to die before he left the hospital, and the freakin hospital was so cheap they made you have to repeat word for word the bad news to your loved one yourself because your loved one was hard of hearing?
Technology is good in a lot of ways, but this is just one of the many areas in which it totally sucks. We are getting further and further away from real human to human interaction every day.
Totally disagree. He wasn't telling the guy to take two aspirin and get a lot of rest. He was telling the guy he would be dead before he left the hospital.
To put the burden on that guy's poor granddaughter to deliver the bad news may be legal, but:
1.) It shows that they didn't know sh!t about the patient (hard of hearing).
2.) They had absolutely no compassion about a man and his granddaughter having to deal with imminent death within hours, or even minutes, while under their care.
If I was informed I was going to die soon, I wouldn't give a shit if it was from human, robot, or talking dog.
