Robotics

We have a robot in the ED that is used when we get a stroke patient in. It's pretty interesting. If a patient with stroke symptoms gets to the ED in under 3 hours of the start of symptoms we activate the stroke team, We place the robot in front of the patients bed and a video screen and speaker turn on and a neurologist from downtown interviews and examines the patient with the nurse assisting with the physical exam. Based on that and if the patient meets criteria the clot busting drugs are given with a pretty good success rate, It is miraculous to see someone who comes in unable to move one side and or speak regain function. Anyway I went into the empty trauma room about 2 hours later and the robot was saying " please plug me in please plug me in" so I plugged her in. Then she says " thank you" so I replied your welcome. One hour later I get a call from a guy named John in Chicago who says the robot called him in Chicago via London to tell him she had been unplugged and needed to be rebooted. I was hysterical. The robot called internationally to squeal on us that we had left her unplugged. I kept trying to get John to tell me what other things she was capable of but we were both laughing so hard we didn't get very far. Technology is amazing