Just what the doctor ordered: virtually
MEDICINE has been continually evolving, but the advent of the greatest public health crisis in living memory has spurred that change exponentially.
“Many doctors still practice as I did when I started some 35 years ago; their patients sitting in front of them, their details on the doctor’s desk in manilla folders and probably the same magazines on the waiting room table too, but Covid-19 has brought telemedicine, telehealth or virtual health care, however you want to describe it, to the forefront,” says Discovery Health’s chief medical officer, Dr Maurice Goodman.
“There is a huge shortage of medical skills at the same time we are facing, notwithstanding
