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Saturday, May 21, 2005

Medicine by Phone

This seems like a potentially disastrous practice. From American Medical News:
TelaDoc Medical Services Inc. has assembled a network of physicians around the country to offer telephone treatment for minor, nonurgent problems of patients the doctors have never seen in person...
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