A doctor in California used a video-link robot to tell a patient he was going to die. The man's family is not pleased.
But Annalisia Wilharm said she never expected a doctor would deliver the bad news about her grandfather via a video screen on a robot.Wilharm was sitting by her grandfather's bedside in the ICU of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Fremont, California, last Monday night when the machine rolled into their room and a doctor, appearing via live video link, offered his grim prognosis. Her grandfather Ernest Quintana, 78, died the next day.
Dying: What no one wants to talk aboutIn the footage viewed by CNN, the doctor on the screen tells Quintana,"Unfortunately there's nothing we can treat very effectively." The doctor explains they can give Quintana morphine to make him more comfortable, but that would make breathing more difficult. Wilharm then tells her grandfather the doctor is recommending hospice care at home.
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