It may help in rural areas:
“About 90 percent of psychiatrists and psychologists live in urban areas and about 20 percent of the population of the United States lives outside of an urban area,” said Beth Hudnall Stamm, Director of the Institute of Rural Health, Idaho State University.Dr. Tobin and her colleagues serve patients in ten counties across the state, on average each patient almost 120 miles away. The patients usually connect to their doctors at a local clinic..through ecrypted video-conferencing.
