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In reply to the discussion: Student Dies When Hospital Has No ICU Doctors, Calls One on Videochat Who Pronounces Him Dead Remotely, Lawsuit Claims [View all]ChicagoTeamster
(1,030 posts)To control who gets to profit from Medical care, and other than direct surgical procedures, they are restructuring positions within hospitals such that patients are cared for by the lowest paid employee and the qualified professionals are supervising. If this Dental (Medical) student was covered by University Insurance, His school should have been advocating for him but they probably assumed he was getting quality care. Same with his family if he was under their insurance. I don't recall whether or not the article mentioned ER but the maltreatment occurred in the ICU. And, this facility was either affiliated with a University or in a town with a University that had medical programs so it should have had an adequately staffed ER and functioning ICU. It wasn't some underfunded rural hospital that had it's medicare and medicaid funding cut by DOGE although those cuts affected all hospitals.
Not that his death is anyone's fault but the hospital and insurance company but the only recourse the surviving family are left with now is to sue the medical institution for institutional malpractice. Nobody should die because possibly the plan they had didn't cover having a personal care team of qualified professionals because the policy wasn't high enough quality or the hospital cut corners because the insurance carriers were cutting back on re-imbursement rates. That's what the insurance companies and hospital groups are fighting over. If they didn't have the ICU they should have stabilized him and flown him air ambulance to a hospital that could have treated him.