Jimmy Kimmel
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Permanente sent in a robot with the doctor's face on the viewing screen to give the bad news.
And to make the situation worse, the volume on the robot was too low, so the patient's wife, who's hard of hearing, had to continue to have it re-explained to her over and over again because she couldn't hear what the doctor was saying.
The hospital apologized to the family.
I'll look into it.
It's weird you ask that.
It's the bad news robot.
Oh, okay.
All sorts of bad news.
Yeah.
It wheeled itself in.
They cut a few wires.
Well, the hospital apologized.
They promised to evaluate the procedures for delivering bad news to patients.
It shan't happen again.
Oh, yeah, put it in the rubber room.
Just think about what it's done.
At least go to sensitivity training.
It's a delivery ward.
It's a boy.
The burden on the taxpayers.