Friday 2 January 2015

Cautious Doctors Use Telemedicine to Diagnose Flu

Cautious Doctors Use Telemedicine to Diagnose Flu Some doctors in Tennessee are asking patients with flu-like symptoms not to come into their offices to avoid spreading the virus to other patients in their waiting room.Instead, these doctors are evaluating patients over the phone or on computers as part of something called "telemedicine.""If you're really feeling crummy and you have the symptoms of influenza, your chances of having influenza are very, very high -- over 90 percent," Dr. William Schaffner, chair of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. ...




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