A 40 year old truck driver was cruising through the Eastside in the middle of the night in 2010 when he began to feel a bit of indigestion. Then a lot of indigestion. He pulled over, remembering he was covered by a reputable nsurance company. His medical plan allowed him to get a doctor through the phone within 25 minutes. He called and gave his symptoms: chest pain, a little numbness in the right arm, nausea. He was going to have a major heart attack, and his GPS system guided him to the nearest hospital.
The truck driver ability to get a doctor on phone saved his life, and the lives of whoever was on the road that might have plowed into his 15 ton truck had he not have the option of calling a doctor. Telemedicine, it’s convenient, affordable and offers quality treatment, this should be the future of medical care.
When it comes to medical service, the term efficient is a term that frightens people keeping in mind an unforgiving bureaucracy system in the health sector. But it’s the lack of efficiency that is burdening the health system. Consider a middle age woman with a urinary problem who has taken leave from work to obtain a drug prescription she already knows from a doctor, but won’t get the prescription because the doctor’s office is closed.
Americans alone are struggling to access affordable, convenient health care with 103 million people in the U.S. live in areas short of this basic need, according to the Health Resources and Services Administration. Yet the country depends on costly, brick and mortar facilities that eat a lot of time traveling from destinations.
Primary health care givers and doctors tend to settle in urban areas. If you unfortunately get sick in rural Tennessee, even during the work days, you only hop might be the emergency room. But there exists an untapped resource, instead of letting go of older doctors who are almost reaching retirement or doctors abandoning their careers due to the many legal obstacles hindering their progress, why not let these doctors offer their years of experience to patients using phones and the internet?
Telemedicine attorneys can help their clients gain the necessary knowledge they need and deserve and help them comply with the existing laws, policies and regulations laid down for the betterment of the whole society in accessing health care services. In this case, the client is the telemedicine expert who avail such services to people.