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...cell phone and a personal digital assistant like a Palm or laptop with detailed patient histories. Moreover, "most point-of-service diagnostic equipment has become so portable that house-call physicians have the capability of providing care comparable to an urgent-care center in the home," says Dr. George Taler, co-director of the Washington Hospital Center Medical House Call Program in Washington. "Even intravenous therapies, medications and oxygen are readily available at the time of the visit if the physician wishes to offer advanced care for those patients who would prefer to avoid the emergency room or, for that...
While colleagues in an office-based practice see about 25 patients daily, house callers see just six to eight. "But once you've made one or two house calls, the power of the setting is very clear," says Taler. Dr. Thomas Cornwell of HomeCare Physicians in Wheaton, Ill., has made 19,500 house calls since he started in 1993. While he notes that "we do all our own blood draws because we do not have a service in the area that does blood drawing," he believes that he can do a better physical of his patients at home...
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