Bereaved by anger to the hospital as 'the robot was sentenced to death', the ripple to the doctor's response

by Chris Devers

A 78 - year - old man who was brought to a hospital by an ambulance due to deterioration of chronic lung disease is told that the robot who entered the patient 's room will "die in a few days", and the bereaved family shows anger.

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A 78 - year - old man, Ernest Quintana, was brought to the emergency room of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in San Francisco, USA, on Sunday in a state where she could not breathe. According to Annalisia Wilharm, a grandson who accompanied Quintana's hospital room that was immediately hospitalized, the nurse came to the hospital after the remark of "The doctor will come at a round check" was said to be a robot equipped with a display about. And the doctor that was displayed on the display told Quintana that spontaneous breathing is impossible, "that the already functioning lungs are not left" and "that the time left by Quintana is several days" It was.

Mr. Quintana in the photo

It is thought that it is a medical robot like "RP-VITA" that entered Quintana's room.

Mr. Quintana could not hear the right ear, but since the robot could not turn to the left side of Quintana, her grandson Wilharm repeatedly told Quintana that the doctor said what he said. "I think that it may be possible to use a robot if it is a daily content, but the news that" the lungs are not left and become morphine until they die "is not a machine, it should be conveyed from the human mouth "Wilharm says.

Mr. Michelle J Gaskill of Kaiser Permanente shows regret about the fact that this situation is special and that he did not follow the patient's expectations, but the hospital is conducting telemedicine and the conversation through the display I explained that other nurses and doctors will be present whenever they are done. "This is a safe way that made it possible to talk with a doctor in front of you using television technologies and the nurses and doctors who were present together will explain the action and purpose of the technology," Gaskill Says.

Kaiser Permanente explained that technology does not replace conversation with patients and patients' families.

Steve Pantilat of the Palliative Medical Division of the University of California, San Francisco said, "We are not ascertaining details" about this case, "Robot technology is phenomenal for patients and patients' families Some people think that it is a thing and it is far from the situation that "there is a doctor in front of you". " On the other hand, even if you face the face you may not feel sympathy or sympathy, but you may feel warmth and intimacy in the video conference. "No matter how well you tell the difficult news, your family will be saddened and think that you do not want to hear it," Panty ratt commented. Furthermore, Mr. Quintana died two days after it was taken to the hospital.