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Doctors are busy people and why should someone have to go through unnecessary hospitalizations if they can be avoided. If the doctor can assess the situation over a screen then why not use one!
you can’t smell or touch through a screen and the visual is a bit distorted on a screen so the doctor is reliant on the patient and nursing or health aides filling out the picture for him/her. i think this is an important part of using these new technologies, the health workers need to be trained. nothing can take the place of seeing a doctor face-to-face.