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Over the past year, nearly 40 states and Washington, D.C., have ended emergency declarations that made it easier for doctors to use video visits to see patients in another state, according to the Alliance for Connected Care, which advocates for telemedicine use.

Government bureaucracy strikes again.

>Over the past year, nearly 40 states and Washington, D.C., have ended emergency declarations that made it easier for doctors to use video visits to see patients in another state, according to the Alliance for Connected Care, which advocates for telemedicine use. Government bureaucracy strikes again.

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To be fair most medicine is a joke. Most doctors just fill out a check box and offer treatments or medications that the check box suggests.

Yes there are some diagnostic things doctors can do like blood pressure or checking your heart beat or breathing but for the most part and for most visits the patient could just fill out the check boxes themselves and a rudimentary AI could do the same job as a doctor.

Telemedicine is the charade with the bonus of the doctor not being able to do any of the diagnostic things and just sending in a prescription based on what they are allowed to prescribe over the video call and whatever symptoms you tell them.

For example, do you want a prescription for sleeping medication? Schedule a teledoc and tell them you haven't been able to sleep for the last three days.

[–] • 1 pt

Granted I have been lucky to avoid major illness and injury in my life, so in my experience doctors are just gatekeepers to prescriptions.

I can tell if I get strep throat but I still need someone to prescribe the antibiotics.

[–] • 1 pt

Yeah it's funny how they push you to test if it's mono or strep when the treatment is exactly the same either way too.

[–] • 1 pt

To be fair if you schedule any doctor appointment, complain about a chronic symptom they can't assess right that second, you're probably get a prescription right then and there.

[–] • 1 pt

Yeah it's all bullshit. Should be able to just walk into a pharmacy with a list of symptoms at this point.