the.com/telemedicine
a doctor's appointment where the waiting room is your couch and the germs stay in your phone.
means remote diagnosis and treatment via video, phone, or messaging instead of an in-person clinic visit.
from tele- (greek for far off) plus medicine; first used with radio consultations for ships in the 1900s, then exploded when covid made waiting rooms feel like crime scenes.
nasa linkastronauts got remote checkups decades before zoom doctors.
2020 spikeus telehealth visits rose over 4000 percent in weeks.
rural lifelinecuts hours of driving down to a wifi signal.
limitcannot set a broken bone through a screen.