Blake McKinney is an emergency physician and co-founder and chief medical officer, CirrusMD.
Doctors today can help more people, and prevent the spread of disease more effectively through communication, than we ever could by seeing patients one-at-a-time in person. I have realized that instant human connection through technology makes us more powerful and faster than a virus.
I began my career as a physician in the pre-iPhone era. The only way for the sick to seek medical advice was to …
“Should I cancel my business trip?”
That is not the kind of question that patients typically ask their doctors. For most people, that’s not even a question they can ask their doctors, at least, not without an appointment, a co-pay and an anxiety-inducing wait in a crowded doctor’s office.
As U.S. cases of coronavirus rose this week, I fielded some version of this question from countless patients via telemedicine. Technology and experience-based …
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