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Critics of remote-control medicine say communicating by phone may be a reasonable way to diagnose a problem with a car, but not to understand the intricacies of human disease. Dr. Daniel Isaacman, a pediatrician at Pittsburgh's Childrens Hospital who has examined the question of remote diagnosis, cites a study in which 61 emergency-room doctors were contacted by phone and presented with the same hypothetical patient, a baby boy with a 102 degrees fever. For a child under two months, such a fever can signal a life- threatening infection. Nearly 30% of doctors responding...
...physicians is that if 900 services catch on, they will deter patients from establishing a rapport with their family doctor and cause them to miss out on vital ongoing preventive advice. "A cornerstone of good medical care is continuity and getting to know a patient as an individual," explains Isaacman. "This service is going to discourage that kind of care and encourage patients to seek a quick, temporary...
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