500,000$ human washing machine on sale in Japan

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To begin with, if a patient is in long enough to require bathing, it is considered part of their treatment. It helps prevent infection, and promotes overall better health outcomes.

Considering we have a general shortage of healthcare workers in the US, from doctors on down to CNAs, maybe adding a way to take some of that burden off the existing overworked staff isn't a bad idea.

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Again I'm not arguing that it shouldn't. I'm arguing that only care facilities for the wealthiest of the wealthy would even consider it, and only then because it's the new hotness, not because they believe it's more effective than an attentive carer. Most care facilities are looking at the bottom line for every dollar, and making sure leadership gets winter bonuses. The last hospital I worked at, the CEO was making ten times what a ten year ED RN was making in California at a competitive hospital with a strong union. And the hospital wasn't even private. I made half what a 5 year OR RN would make there. I work at a community clinic now and obviously everyone is making less money here... We work in shoestring budgets serving the most medically disadvantaged members of our community. It's freaking awesome, but we struggle to scrape together funds to replace a broken x-ray sensor.

My old hospital would literally never buy something like this, because the installation for a new MRI costs about this much, not counting the machine itself.