Phone consults are risky: My ‘Spidey sense’ saved a serious misdiagnosis

Dr Ro Goel

As the COVID-19 pandemic has spread across the country telehealth consultations have increased too. And with them the inability to practise medicine as we’ve all been taught from medical school. 

Telehealth has severely limited our ability to perform proper history taking, physical examination, bedside testing and the chance to use our ‘Spidey sense’ as I call it.