A 26-year-old dental student in Connecticut died in an intensive care unit that was overseen by a remote "tele-health" doctor who pronounced him dead on a video screen, a lawsuit says.
Asked whether Yale New Haven uses the services of tele-health professionals in its hospitals and ICUs, the spokesperson reportedly said the model “enhances critically ill patients by pairing advanced virtual monitoring with expert bedside teams.”
Is there anyone in a spokesperson role who understands how much worse an answer like this sounds compared to just saying “Yes”?
edit: It’s like an hour later and I’m still floored by that line. Reading this article and getting to that line at the end is like being upset that the dystopia measurements are getting so high and then realizing I left off the exponent.
“enhances critically ill patients”. Not even “enhances the treatment of critically ill patients”. It just “enhances” them. I guess it’s enhancing their critical illness, judging by the subject of the article.
the problem with you is you can read, a reporter cant just put yes if they answer the question like this, and no dipshit newspaper reader is going to be able to parse this.
Is there anyone in a spokesperson role who understands how much worse an answer like this sounds compared to just saying “Yes”?
edit: It’s like an hour later and I’m still floored by that line. Reading this article and getting to that line at the end is like being upset that the dystopia measurements are getting so high and then realizing I left off the exponent.
“enhances critically ill patients”. Not even “enhances the treatment of critically ill patients”. It just “enhances” them. I guess it’s enhancing their critical illness, judging by the subject of the article.
the problem with you is you can read, a reporter cant just put yes if they answer the question like this, and no dipshit newspaper reader is going to be able to parse this.