John, a 45 year-old corn farmer doesn’t fell good because the sudden strong head-ache and fever. Before the VMCC clinic Turkey-Texas had been built, it took him 2 and half hours to the nearby hospital. He usually went to pharmacy for some drugs and seldom went to hospital. This time he tried a cold medicine as usual. But due to the fever and headache went worse and hr sometimes felt nausea, he decides to go to the VMCC clinic, which was built at 15 minutes drive distance and have a check on it. “Why major hospital like VMCC would set a clinic at such rural place?” As he was driving, he started thinking about the question. When he got into the clinic, it is totally different with the hospital or clinic he had ever seen before. Not many patients were waiting unlike other rural
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Since he was suspected to have a Meningitis, the doctor instructed the nurse to have a deeper testing like cerebrospinal fluid examination. After 7 days, John went to the clinic again and he was told he had a Meningitis. In general situation, John need to be hospitalized and have a intravenous drip treatment for approximately 1 week. But the VMCC enable patients do that at their own home considering the advanced technology of intravenous drip and the cost of hospitalization. He brought back 5 days’ amount of drip and had a video diagnosis with attending physician Josh everyday before he dripping. At 5th day, he went to the clinic to get two more drips he discussed with doctor before. This system of telemedicine not only provide patients living in rural area more accessibility to physician also save their time and cost on hospitalization. For some test which can be done in the clinic, the equipment would be delivered from major hospital. For others which have difficult testing, the sample would be shipped to major hospital tested by engineers and
Since he was suspected to have a Meningitis, the doctor instructed the nurse to have a deeper testing like cerebrospinal fluid examination. After 7 days, John went to the clinic again and he was told he had a Meningitis. In general situation, John need to be hospitalized and have a intravenous drip treatment for approximately 1 week. But the VMCC enable patients do that at their own home considering the advanced technology of intravenous drip and the cost of hospitalization. He brought back 5 days’ amount of drip and had a video diagnosis with attending physician Josh everyday before he dripping. At 5th day, he went to the clinic to get two more drips he discussed with doctor before. This system of telemedicine not only provide patients living in rural area more accessibility to physician also save their time and cost on hospitalization. For some test which can be done in the clinic, the equipment would be delivered from major hospital. For others which have difficult testing, the sample would be shipped to major hospital tested by engineers and