Virtual Doctor Visits

If you think that doctors prefer to skip the personal connections with their patients, you could be wrong. Telemedicine is able to take hold in the same way that other, newer technologies have. This is where video conferencing and data transfer through mobile phones and Internet connect doctors to patients.

The idea seems to be late not because of technical problems, expense or insufficient need. It seems doctors are holding up the process. According to the New York Times, a recent study by researchers at the Texas Medical School University in Houston examined the impact of telemedicine on patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). While the researchers had originally planned to study the effect of telemedicine on mortality, complications and length of stay of patients in five different hospitals they have inadvertently discovered the extent to which doctors were reluctant to incorporate this technological change.

Others, including Rashid Bashshur, director of telemedicine at the University of the health system, they say online medicine is a less expensive way to provide routine check-up. "The dispute that you want the 'laying on of hands' to practice medicine is an old and tired argument that simply has no reliability," he said. "There are two constants in medicine: change and resistance to change."

A group of Texas offers the virtual visits a private clinic to anyone in the state for about $ 50. The system has much to recommend it. Patients can access, choose a doctor from among those available, and have a conversation in an immediate real-time, including as video conferencing. However, Texas law requires that before doctors consult with patients or prescribe medications online or by phone, form a relationship through means such as a physical examination.

Perhaps there is some middle ground on health care and technology to meet. "My opinion is that we want to provide the highest possible for our patients quality care," Dr. Eric Thomas a lead author of the study and director of the University of Texas-Memorial Hermann Center for Health Quality and Safety, said. "In some situations that could be a doctor is away, In the other, I do not think that as long as we keep our eye on the ball - the ball being the patient - we'll be all right in the end, we can divide our work in ways new and still do what's best.”

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