just to be their lawyer.

OMG, this is horrible!

No doctor ever examined him …

ICU is supposed to be above any other care provided in any hospital

This is criminal

And who is benefitting? Only the billionaire tech bros bank accounts…..

AWAY from shareholder primacy to a stakeholder approach, overturn Citizens United, and raise taxes on billionaires until there aren't any, and on corporations until they are paying their fair share.

This was completely preventable. I feel badly for his family. 😔

No. This is death from neglect, deliberate withholding of lifesaving treatment, not the the providers, who were probably traumatized by having to wait, unable to provide needed care, but by the management company who will charge this young man's family and insurance HUGE sums of money, on top of the massive premiums they already paid over the years for him to die from "that department is not profitable enough"

- Oh wait ...

The post is an illustration of how bad care has gotten in some hospitals. How could they not have an actual doctor in the ER?

Blaming it on coverage or blaming a university is ridiculous. This is what our government, in particular the republicans selling out to billionaires, has done to us.

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.

You get to the ER and there is just a person at a desk who calls a Dr based on their (2 year health degree) assessment.

Deprofessionalization
Defunding
Deregulation

All dumb ideas brought to us by the RepubliCON "from Ronald to Donald" dipshits.

This case and the resultant death is just awful and am sorry that it happened. I have known for years and have witnessed and heard too many stories about poor care or on-site hospice nurses having to split their time between multiple very sick people miles apart and there is always some poor soul and family that pulls the short straw and family is left alone to try to handle medical conditions without the skill set. This is just an even dumber and more horrifying extension of business trying to save every last penny at the expense of good products or good care.

Also, it seems our health care system is not set up to handle very ill patients who are not ready to go and/or have their pain, whether existent or not, be eased by sedating, stupor inducing medicines just so you will get your medical care covered, so they are easier to handle for the understaffed facilities. Not saying pain meds are never needed or helpful but people should have choices and that's a whole different topic with no easy answers. I just firmly believe everyone should have a say, if they are able, "alert and oriented" (or made plans in advance) in how they choose to go out and not be forced along a path that most pleases someone else, some societal norm, some religion's norm, someone else's war, some entity's business profit goals or some bureaucratic, legal framework more focused on fear of potential lawsuits than good patient care. We need a better system, both federally and locally.

Apologies for the rant, I know this is a loaded subject and everyone has different perspectives and experiences.

“Before we provide any service, you must sign this release agreement that absolves us from any responsibility, regardless of your outcome.”

For pediatrics, I think it is OK for non-urgent things like questions about nutrition, potty training, sleep problems, temper tantrum management and the like. If someone is sick, the evaluation needs to be face-to-face and hands on.

The ICU nurses must have been frantic.