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Medical Consultations With Webcams Extremely Successful
AgaveNectar writes "Doctors are far from being early adopters, so they have just gotten around to publishing a report that webcams help immensely with making the right decision when someone shows up to a rural emergency room suffering from a stroke. Using clot-destroying medications like Alteplase is really risky, and it should only be given in acute cases. In a study of 222 patients, rural ER doctors consulted with faraway stroke specialists. They made the right decision 98 percent of the time when the expert examined the patient with a webcam, and only 82 percent of the time when they just talked to each other on the phone. Perhaps this report will finally convince the medical community that telemedicine is important."
...Pay-per-view gynecology.
Could be worse though. ER tech, "This guy says he slipped and fell on a fusili statue. Here: take a look."
__ Someday, but not this morning, I'll finally learn to use the preview button.
Except the ones who are dead.
We didn't have a medical consultation, but yo mama gave me one hell of an anatomy lesson!
Can see the new spam already: "If you have a webcam, we can provide you with a free breast exam."
My wife went to see a doctor, because she did not feel well. Headaches and pains. We had a guess based on some study on the internets, but the doctor promptly decided that she had tension neck. Now the 'tension neck' is sound asleep and three years old.
I'm amazed that nobody has noticed that this means that webcams have passed the Turing test.