{"id":88507,"date":"2019-03-08T19:03:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T03:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/california-man-learns-hes-dying-from-doctor-on-robot-video"},"modified":"2019-03-08T19:03:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T03:03:19","slug":"california-man-learns-hes-dying-from-doctor-on-robot-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/california-man-learns-hes-dying-from-doctor-on-robot-video","title":{"rendered":"California man learns he\u2019s dying from doctor on robot video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/california-man-learns-hes-dying-from-doctor-on-robot-video.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 Ernest Quintana\u2019s family knew he was dying of chronic lung disease when he was taken by ambulance to a hospital, unable to breathe.<\/p>\n<p>But they were devastated when a robot machine rolled into his room in the intensive care unit that night and a doctor told the 78-year-old patient by video call he would likely die within days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re coming to tell us normal news, that\u2019s fine, but if you\u2019re coming to tell us there\u2019s no lung left and we want to put you on a morphine drip until you die, it should be done by a human being and not a machine,\u201d his daughter Catherine Quintana said Friday.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/a13a6811157b412fb79909b36146d646\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/a13a6811157b412fb79909b36146d646<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 Ernest Quintana\u2019s family knew he was dying of chronic lung disease when he was taken by ambulance to a hospital, unable to breathe. But they were devastated when a robot machine rolled into his room in the intensive care unit that night and a doctor told the 78-year-old patient by video [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}