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Dental student dies in ICU. Only MD present for hours was telehealth.
Posted on 4/6/26 at 12:38 pm
Posted on 4/6/26 at 12:38 pm
NYPost
Scary. And likely happening more and more.
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A 26-year-old promising dental student died in a Connecticut hospital’s intensive care unit that was being overseen by a “tele-health” doctor — who pronounced him dead via a video call, a lawsuit alleges.
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In the four hours he was in the ICU, Hylton was never examined by an on-site doctor, despite his condition worsening, the lawsuit charges.
Scary. And likely happening more and more.
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Posted on 4/6/26 at 12:43 pm to Cell of Awareness
A lot of rural hospitals have telehealth critical care physicians who advise remotely what to do based on the information they receive. Usually in the circumstances there’s at least an internist or family medicine doctor admitting them to their ICU until they can be sent to another facility. Not sure what the arrangement is here but definitely is heartbreaking this play out.
Posted on 4/6/26 at 12:45 pm to Cell of Awareness
I’d go full Luigi if that were my kid
Posted on 4/6/26 at 12:48 pm to Jizzy08
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A lot of rural hospitals have telehealth critical care physicians who advise remotely what to do based on the information they receive. Usually in the circumstances there’s at least an internist or family medicine doctor admitting them to their ICU until they can be sent to another facility. Not sure what the arrangement is here but definitely is heartbreaking this play out.
This is true, but there is hardly any rural area in CT. It's a tiny state that can be navigated in every which way in a couple of hours. This is asisnine.
Posted on 4/6/26 at 12:51 pm to Cell of Awareness
If only he wore a mask.
Posted on 4/6/26 at 12:51 pm to Cell of Awareness
How many American doctors could we find with $200B requested for this war?
They’ll tell us we need to import foreign doctors instead of paying for the training of American ones.
They’ll tell us we need to import foreign doctors instead of paying for the training of American ones.
Posted on 4/6/26 at 12:53 pm to Cell of Awareness
Why is being dental student relevant?
Posted on 4/6/26 at 12:55 pm to Earnest_P
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How many American doctors could we find with $200B requested for this war?
They’ll tell us we need to import foreign doctors instead of paying for the training of American ones.
The larger issue is the new cap on student loans for professional degrees. While it may force med schools to reduce tuition, that’s not going to happen overnight and we’re going to have a gap of medical professionals because most people can’t afford a doctorate without student loans.
Posted on 4/6/26 at 12:55 pm to rpg37
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This is true, but there is hardly any rural area in CT. It's a tiny state that can be navigated in every which way in a couple of hours. This is asisnine.
Yea I figured considering New England has a top medical school within at least an hour in every direction. One thing if this happens in rural Arkansas, not in a state that small.
Posted on 4/6/26 at 12:56 pm to BluegrassBelle
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The larger issue is the new cap on student loans for professional degrees. While it may force med schools to reduce tuition, that’s not going to happen overnight and we’re going to have a gap of medical professionals because most people can’t afford a doctorate without student loans.
I’m talking about giving our best and brightest medical doctor training for free. That seems like a good use of taxpayer money if we are having a shortage due to costs.
Posted on 4/6/26 at 12:59 pm to Earnest_P
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How many American doctors could we find with $200B requested for this war?
Medical school enrollment was a record high last year and you think you were making a point with this nonsense.
Posted on 4/6/26 at 1:00 pm to Earnest_P
Our shortage has to do with not enough residency slots mandated by congress and an abundance of 3rd world shot holes sending fake doctors here to be hired for cheap by hospitals
Posted on 4/6/26 at 1:03 pm to Cell of Awareness
Id burn that place down.
Posted on 4/6/26 at 1:03 pm to Clames
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Medical school enrollment was a record high last year and you think you were making a point with this nonsense.
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Why the bottleneck exists • Residency funding is largely controlled by Medicare • Growth has been historically capped and slow
So we couldn’t spend money to help this?
Posted on 4/6/26 at 1:09 pm to Sweep Da Leg
Eh idk. There are like 10k ish more residency spots than graduates of us MD + DO schools this year. (Idk the numbers of US kids coming out of Caribbean schools). That’s why you see so many community internal medicine programs full of Indians.
Posted on 4/6/26 at 1:10 pm to Jizzy08
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A lot of rural hospitals have telehealth critical care physicians who advise remotely what to do based on the information they receive. Usually in the circumstances there’s at least an internist or family medicine doctor admitting them to their ICU until they can be sent to another facility. Not sure what the arrangement is here but definitely is heartbreaking this play out.
My mother had a telehealth neurology consult when she was in the ER for a seizure. It is what it is. You're not going to have a live neurologist on call at 11:00 at night in BFE Louisiana.
Bridgeport is the largest city in the richest state in the country, though. That makes it more likely a cost cutting measure than doctor shortage.
Posted on 4/6/26 at 1:14 pm to Cell of Awareness
Doctor shortage and admins putting profits over patients. Some hospitals simply have no access and telehealth is better than nothing. People will realize only once we reach crisis level that doctors are underpaid in relation to other occupations once we have none. There are other factors as well, but it's not an attractive field anymore.
Posted on 4/6/26 at 1:16 pm to Earnest_P
You don't get it. It's the doctors keeping the numbers of students down through their lobbyists.
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