Telehealth is bullshit — I’m over patients thinking all consults can be done over the phone
I remember one of my first days of seeing patients by telehealth, right at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020.
The scary new coronavirus was looming on the horizon like a tsunami that we knew was going to hit eventually; everyone was nervous and our first lockdown had just begun.
I sat in my room and picked up the phone to call my first patient. His presenting complaint? “I’ve been having headaches.”
I was a bit stumped. “Do you have any respiratory symptoms?”
