Comments on: Too Busy to Go to the Doctor? Just Visit Her Online http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/09/23/too-busy-to-go-to-the-doctor-just-visit-her-online/ Sat, 11 May 2013 22:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: The Creepy World Of Old-School Medicine | Discoblog | Discover Magazine http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/09/23/too-busy-to-go-to-the-doctor-just-visit-her-online/#comment-18235 The Creepy World Of Old-School Medicine | Discoblog | Discover Magazine Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:04:01 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=2406#comment-18235 [...] Related Content: DISCOVER Gallery: The Creepy World of Old-School Human Dissection Discoblog: Brain Surgery Enables Woman to Run 100-Mile Races Discoblog: Too Busy to Go to the Doctor? Just Visit Her Online [...] [...] Related Content: DISCOVER Gallery: The Creepy World of Old-School Human Dissection Discoblog: Brain Surgery Enables Woman to Run 100-Mile Races Discoblog: Too Busy to Go to the Doctor? Just Visit Her Online [...]

]]> By: G Hats http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/09/23/too-busy-to-go-to-the-doctor-just-visit-her-online/#comment-18234 G Hats Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:09:59 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=2406#comment-18234 I can see this posing a huge number of problems. Specifically doctors making false or incorrect diagnoses due to lack of availability to take tests or closely examine and touch the patient. Especially something like a mole, where a web-cam may not offer very good visual detail and the doctor is unable to touch it - the doctor has to rely on info given from the patient. And, even more especially for something like a lump or a growth under skin which would require direct personal contact. I fear this will just cause doctors to go along with what a patient says they have and prescribe medications even if they are the incorrect medication or if the patient doesn't need them at all. Even though it says that a person should go in to a doctor's office if things change, etc, I can see people relying to much on this and never feeling the need to go to a doctor no matter how serious things are. I can see this posing a huge number of problems. Specifically doctors making false or incorrect diagnoses due to lack of availability to take tests or closely examine and touch the patient. Especially something like a mole, where a web-cam may not offer very good visual detail and the doctor is unable to touch it – the doctor has to rely on info given from the patient. And, even more especially for something like a lump or a growth under skin which would require direct personal contact.

I fear this will just cause doctors to go along with what a patient says they have and prescribe medications even if they are the incorrect medication or if the patient doesn’t need them at all. Even though it says that a person should go in to a doctor’s office if things change, etc, I can see people relying to much on this and never feeling the need to go to a doctor no matter how serious things are.

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