A New Era? Pandemic Boosts Telemedicine

Though telemedicine is not available to everyone, demand for it has surged in Georgia during the pandemic.

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A Note from the Georgia Health News editor Andy Miller: Chances are that if you have needed routine medical care during the pandemic, you received it in front of a computer screen.

But telemedicine couldn’t help what ailed me recently.

After having my temperature taken outside the office, I arrived in a near-empty waiting room. Soon a physician examined the insides of my ears, nose and throat with a scope before figuring out what was wrong. It was pain literally in my neck, causing me to have aggravating pressure in my ear.