Doctors that provide phone/internet consultations?

Question

Does anyone know where I can find a doctor that provides phone/internet consultations? I'm tired of going to doctors who I have to wait 3 months for an appointment, and then they only see me for about 3 minutes anyway!

I have an Health Savings Account plan, so I don't mind paying out of pocket from my HSA account.

Answer 1

The most optimistic view of how the Internet will affect the health care system is that it will provide low-cost, high-quality health information to consumers who will then use this information, in conjunction with providers, to produce better health outcomes.


Behind this "optimistic" view lie a number of assumptions about how the business of health care does and should work. For example, survey results from the Wharton Virtual Test Market show an unexpectedly high number of people buying health care items through the Web. The purchases, however, tend to be vitamins and nutritional supplements rather than prescription drugs. This is because most online pharmacies have not tried, or have not been able, to set up links with insurance companies to cover the costs of these prescriptions.


In fact, the online drugstores have not been selling a lot, period, and their stock prices reflect this. They are very, very low relative to a year ago. Drugstore.com, PlanetRx.com and others have lost a billion dollars of market value over the past year, so Wall Street clearly doesn't think they can sell prescription drugs.


Even if a consumer read on the Internet about an alternative drug for asthma, clicked on Drugstore.com and then wanted to order that drug, she would first need a prescription. She might then have to pay out of pocket for that drug because her insurance company just isn't linked up to Drugstore.com.


Online drug companies are definitely trying to make these links with insurance companies, but it will take a lot of work,. For example, physicians need to start using technology that allows them to write prescriptions online. Then there needs to be a series of procedures and agreements between the drug dispensers, the insurance companies and the online drugstores.


Some companies have begun trying to enter this market. Among the aspirants is eHealthInsurance.com, a California-based company that sells health insurance over the Web.


Consumers could help. If consumers find sites that allow them to search for information about a specific condition, learn about a new drug, request a prescription for that drug from their doctor, order that drug at the online pharmacy, and have it automatically delivered to their home, then perhaps they would start demanding that their insurance company do whatever it takes to allow this process.


The question for pharmaceutical companies is how much money they should take from their non-Internet advertising budget and allocate to the Web, and what impact that will have.


Look at these free health content sites-- Drkoop.com, OnHealth.com, WebMD.com; MedicineNet.com; Wrong Diagnosis.com,MayoClinic.com; Medhelp.org..forum replied by Dr Kevin Pho; and Allheatlh.com You'll find oodles of materials and info about almost any kind of diseases, their symptoms and tx. . And half of the health ads on the Internet comes from pharmaceuticals. Pose a health question in Amazon.com or About.com and you would get all the necessary answers and then some. Most if not all of the respondents are doctors.



In addition, I find a lot of free health info and questions from regular consumers with realistic problems in a forum type format. There are also a lot of free medical advice given to internet users.


Try some of those links below:


http://health.ivillage.com/?ivNPA=1&sky=ggl|ivl|wb|medical|PPC9BBEa|c

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/319/7201/29

http://ibdcrohns.about.com/cs/activismandibd/a/aa051903.htm

http://www.thebestmedicalcare.com/patients/patientguide.htm

The link below are answers to questions posted by consumers and answered by a panel of pharmacists.:


http://www.globegazette.com/northiowatoday/ask_the_expert/template.php?category=Pharmacy


You can also use YA. A lot of respondents are medical professionals like me with a lot of qualifications ;experiences and well-intended motivations behind them.

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Answer 5

I don't think that's a good idea if ever there is one. You really have to be there in his clinic so he can examine you thoroughly. Remote diagnosis is unreliable and a dangerous one. You have to understand that if a doctor is really good, then, he has many patients and you will have to make an appointment and fall in line. Seeing a doctor is like courting a girl - be patient.