JULY - 20238In My OpinionCOMBINING SKILL WITH INTELLIGENT DIAGNOSTICS IS A RECIPE FOR BETTER PATIENT OUTCOMESEntrusting technology to help arrive at a treatment plan for your patients can be a big leap of faith for some physicians: for those who have always relied on their training, experience, and intuition to make clinical decisions, choosing to rely on telemedicine for a virtual assessment that will determine a clinical pathway is diametrically opposed to everything they have ever known or practiced.At medical school we are taught about the importance of face-to-face interaction, of asking questions about an individual's symptoms and of laying hands upon them in order to determine what their medical issue might be, and to then choose appropriate, and preferably non-invasive, tests to achieve an accurate diagnosis. So why would anyone knowingly choose to deviate from what seems to be working?Dr. Nick West, Chief Medical Officer, Abbott's Vascular BusinessBy
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