Omar
@dromar.eth
See this way to often at the hospital and it’s actually more common with millennials. 45yo man with severe symptoms advised to get inhaler, died hours later. This Amazon One Medical lawsuit highlights risks of virtual care. Raises questions about telehealth quality and safety in urgent cases. One Medical is primarily run by NPs and PAs who have little understanding of triaging acuity assessment. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-12-18/lawsuit-against-amazons-one-medical-in-death
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Gabriel Ayuso
@gabrielayuso.eth
IMO this is also laziness or lack of education in part of the patient. Trouble breathing and coughing up blood is an immediate ER or at least Urgent Care visit. Although I agree that the tele-health person should've told them to end the call and go to Urgent Care / ER instead of "buy an inhaler". But even if they had told them that, they already wasted time going the tele-health route in the first place.
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Ryan Anderson
@ra
Patients shouldn't be expected to know more than the medical professionals they're paying for a service, especially when we're advertising telehealth as an alternative to in-person care. In this case, unless the patient completely downplayed his symptoms, any medical professional should have given him better advice.
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Omar
@dromar.eth
Definitely a component, although I think the telehealth shows that initiative. But definitely lack of education in general and of the condition. Alameda county is Oakland area so education level is much lower. Can attest to it having worked there before, lots of non-english patients so language barrier can be an issue. But once they've made contact with a clinic, its wholly that clinics responsibility at that point.
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