Tired of waiting months for patients to receive a dermatology consult? Kaiser has a novel way to solve this. Enter the roving dermatologist, who takes consults over the cell phone and drives to the requesting physician’s office for an evaluation or biopsy:
The roving dermatologists can provide same-day assessments and biopsies of skin lesions, saving patients the month-long wait it can otherwise take to get an appointment with a dermatologist.
Although convenient, I can only see this working with dermatology. Don’t expect to see any roving cardiologists or surgeons anytime soon.
