My last few posts on telemedicine addressed some advances in the diagnostic aspects of medicine. While one commenter brings up the great point that we are not at the place where we can do full diagnostic physical exams for primary care via telemedicine, there are some areas of procedural medicine where doctors do their work [...]

My last post generated an interesting comment from a reader questioning whether telemedicine can actually be used to do a physical exam. The reader brings up some great questions about how telemedicine can actually work. Such questions and resistance to new technology clearly highlight the struggle for technological progress in medicine.
While I agree that telemedicine [...]

Despite the advances of “Going Live” that I wrote about previously, there are some areas of the health system where a computer cannot replace the presence of a human doctor. In medicine the sacred territory of the doctor is the “physical exam” – the physical examination of a patient. This is the Holy Grail of [...]