When a doctor is unable to physically see and touch a patient to exam him or her the doctor is more likely to let something slip through the cracks; something that could be life changing. “To me, there are no limits on how you can use telemedicine, but of course one of the cons is that you cannot personally touch or feel the patient” (Harper). Online doctors have to rely on patients to tell the doctor what is wrong with them. For the cyberchondrias whose use google to diagnose them or the self-diagnosers their common cold has been diagnosed to be bronchitis. The fact that the doctor has to rely on patient is harmful. It’s harmful because the online doctors are allowed to prescribe prescription.
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Hitzig case because it shows how trusting a random online so called doctor could coast patients their lives. A family lost a husband, father due to trusting a random doctor over the internet. A doctor who never examined Don because if the doctor had examined Don then the doctor would have realized that Don was too malnutrition to take the medication prescribed. The doctor didn’t care about Don all he cared about was the financial gain; and it coast a patient his life. This is just one of the cases that this doctor and countless like him have caused. Patients need to go to a doctor’s office, question the doctor, get to know the doctor and once they trust the doctor should they call that doctor their primary. Then and only then once you have decided that this doctor is your primary should you see him or her for advice through the internet.
My solution to the medical curve of having online doctors as primary doctors is to have primary doctors online. Primary physicians should go from being just in office doctors to in office and online doctors. This would allow a doctor’s primary patients to contact him or her from their home, work, or wherever they please. This would boost doctor’s businesses and create the convenience of online doctors without all the
Since the online doctor is relying on the patient’s …show more content…
Hitzig case because it shows how trusting a random online so called doctor could coast patients their lives. A family lost a husband, father due to trusting a random doctor over the internet. A doctor who never examined Don because if the doctor had examined Don then the doctor would have realized that Don was too malnutrition to take the medication prescribed. The doctor didn’t care about Don all he cared about was the financial gain; and it coast a patient his life. This is just one of the cases that this doctor and countless like him have caused. Patients need to go to a doctor’s office, question the doctor, get to know the doctor and once they trust the doctor should they call that doctor their primary. Then and only then once you have decided that this doctor is your primary should you see him or her for advice through the internet.
My solution to the medical curve of having online doctors as primary doctors is to have primary doctors online. Primary physicians should go from being just in office doctors to in office and online doctors. This would allow a doctor’s primary patients to contact him or her from their home, work, or wherever they please. This would boost doctor’s businesses and create the convenience of online doctors without all the