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Wednesday, December 18, 2024

 https://garymarklevin.substack.com/p/amazon-sued-for-one-medical-malpractice


Healthcare is scaling and failing as corporations’ greed adds to rising healthcare costs.

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.

By Caroline O'Donovan


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.

 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.



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