Comments on: TeleDoc: Damn the physical exam

By: Al Guzman MD

Al Guzman MD — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:42:44 +0000

Physical exam is so important in minimizing lab tests requested by MD’s and I believe that this is very important even in this age of advanced diagnostics! Physical exam will be with us for the next millinium.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 02:46:00 +0000

Do they even mention Physical Exam in court?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:17:00 +0000

Yeah Physical Exam is a waste of time for peole who can’t do one well and can’t make any sense of one in any case.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 18:43:00 +0000

How do you do an LP over the phone?

Send the kit by courier, have patient put it needle up on their kitchen floor, then have them fall backwards on needle. He meant you can’t do ct’s and LP’s by phone.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 15:56:00 +0000

How do you do an LP over the phone?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 03:27:00 +0000

Physical exam is a waste of time. The problem with Teladoc is you can do a Head CY and Lumbar puncture for every simple sinus headache.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 22:19:00 +0000

But wait! Weren’t there an awful lot of people on this website a while back who insisted that physical assessment was a thing of the past? That it was time consuming and inefficacious? Are these the same ones who are investing their life savings in this TeleDoc entreprise?? (or were they just clever med-mal attorneys goading stupid doctors into skipping down this primrose lane??)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 18:41:00 +0000

I would be really good at this. Anybody who calls, I just say “I can’t really give medical advice over the phone for a condition like this. It could be something life threatening. You need to put down the phone and immediately go to the nearest ER”. ENd of consult. Free money!