Virtual Visits To Doctors Help Cut Costs
from the and-yet,-we-still-can't-email-our-doctors dept
A new study suggests that an online chat with your doctor may be just as effective as an in-person visit, while reducing the costs. Doctors, themselves, found online consultations to be "suitable" (as long as they got paid, of course). Personally, I would love to be able to do an online consultation if I needed to discuss something non-urgent and which didn't require physical tests. My current healthcare provider has an "online nurse" program that will let you log into a chat session with a trained nurse, which I've used on occassion, but a full online doctor's visit would be even better, and make it more likely that I would actually use my healthcare provider when problems arose rather than being lazy and hoping that I just get better.
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Can t you use a telephone ?
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Sure, if your doctor
1. knows how to type
2. knows how to use a computer
Far as I've heard, the majority of doctors don't know how to use e-mail. Their computer skills are quite poor compared to other white-collar occupations.
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