AMAZON Sued for One Medical Malpractice
It was bound to happen
Healthcare is scaling and failing as corporations’ greed adds to rising healthcare costs.
A recent Washington Post article describing an encounter
The lawsuit alleges Amazon’s health clinic was “reckless and negligent” in its care of a 45-year-old California man who died after seeking help via telemedicine.
One week before Christmas 2023, Philip Tong logged onto a video consultation with healthcare clinic Amazon One Medical and said that he was short of breath, coughing up blood, and that his feet were turning blue. The provider told him to buy an inhaler, according to an October lawsuit.
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Hours later, Tong collapsed in an emergency room in Oakland, California, according to a complaint filed against the hospital and One Medical. He died the same day.
Whether this case will rise to the level of a formal court adjudication remains open to be seen. Malpractice liability usually resorts to the standard usual and customary practice in the community.
Minute Clinics at CVS and other pharmacies have risen and fallen failing to create a substantial following and are ‘bottom dwellers’ according to most health care providers, except for some nurse practitioners looking for employment ‘elsewhere’.
This is an important case in the healthcare marketplace and should the plaintiff prevail it can set a precedent and warn against further investments in this type of delivery service for healthcare.
Getting what you pay for. To me this very concept of providing care is misguided and perverse. I have no sympathy for either side because the patient exhibited no basic understanding and reached out to a source which knew nothing about him, nor to the company which would have done better with a simple algorithm than an idiot clearly offered. A malpractice suit is deserved but this kind of "medical care" is reprehensible and it should stop.