{"id":110993,"date":"2020-08-07T10:22:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T17:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/covid-19-is-turning-skeptical-doctors-into-telehealth-believers"},"modified":"2020-08-07T10:22:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T17:22:40","slug":"covid-19-is-turning-skeptical-doctors-into-telehealth-believers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/covid-19-is-turning-skeptical-doctors-into-telehealth-believers","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 is turning skeptical doctors into telehealth believers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/covid-19-is-turning-skeptical-doctors-into-telehealth-believers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I first heard [of these startups], I thought this was going to be bad for the field,\u201d Ramasamy tells <em>Inverse<\/em>. \u201cThis is going to be a disservice to our patients. And more importantly, I thought there was going to be some harm involved on the patient side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Direct-to-consumer telehealth companies aim to provide accessible, speedy, stigma-free care for everything from erectile dysfunction to herpes \u2014 without a physical exam. However, troubled by the risks of mistakes and misdiagnoses, as well as privacy breaches, some physicians and patients have been <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/02\/technology\/for-him-for-hers-get-roman.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">skeptical<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Then <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/mind-body\/inside-hospitals-treating-coronavirus\">Covid-19 hit<\/a>. In a pandemic that makes a visit to the doctor <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/mind-body\/coronavirus-risk-evaluation\">riskier<\/a> than ever before, telehealth has seemingly come to the rescue, promising efficient care from the safety of home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen I first heard [of these startups], I thought this was going to be bad for the field,\u201d Ramasamy tells Inverse. \u201cThis is going to be a disservice to our patients. And more importantly, I thought there was going to be some harm involved on the patient side.\u201d Direct-to-consumer telehealth companies aim to provide accessible, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}