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Originally Posted by blueash
So all the times I was awakened by a phone call from a parent to help with a sick child at 2 AM I was NOT practicing medicine. PERIOD. All those calls from hospital floors reporting on the lab results or updating me, I was not practicing medicine PERIOD. The over 100 calls on a weekend during flu season to evaluate and advise was a waste of my time and useless or even dangerous as I wasn't hands on. Good to know. Wish I had just not answered my pager as there was nothing useful I could provide. PERIOD.
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Those are NOT examples of telemedicine, and you know it. They are just the routine calls we get all the time. They are
not scheduled office visits for an evaluation done over the laptop which is the basis of telemedicine. And I'm sure you love those 2 AM hospital calls that somebody's CO2 is 32 or their Na++ is 136 because it is "out of range" as much as I did. So now, be truthful---how many times did you make a major treatment decision over the phone???? I hope not very often at all.