Dr. Michelle writes:
I think you’ve completely missed the best reason for practicing telemedicine.
In the office, I’m getting paid to prescribe meds for patients whose best treatment is a lifestyle change. I prescribe antipsychotics to restrain demented patients in the nursing home and anti-hypertensives to people who were doing fine before the guidelines changed and now are getting sick from the side effects.
Telemedicine has helped me win back my self-respect. It’s healing pure and simple. The patient is sick, I help them and move on to the next. No data entry, no unnecessary medication, no coercing me to change a patient’s behavior over which I have no control.
I feel like a doctor again.
Keep up the good work.
Thank’s Michelle. I couldn’t have said it better myself.