Dr. Jones: The new technology dubbed "telemedicine" will provide sustained improvement in at least rural
patient care since it allows rural physicians to televise medical examinations to specialists who live at great
distances-specialists who will thus be able to provide advice the rural patient would otherwise not
receive.
Dr. Carabella: Not so. Telemedicine might help rural patient care initially. However, small hospitals will
realize that they can minimize expenses by replacing physicians with technicians who can use
telemedicine to transmit examinations to large medical centers, resulting in fewer patients being able to
receive traditional, direct medical examinations. Eventually, it will be the rare individual who ever gets
truly personal attention. Hence, rural as well as urban patient care will suffer.
Question: which one of the following is a point at issue between Dr. Jones and Dr. Carabella?
Answers
Explanation:
With reference to the dialogue between Dr. Jones and Dr. Carabella, we see a difference in opinion between the two regarding the impact of telemedicine.
Dr. Jones belives that telemedicine will help to reach rural areas in an effective and fast way while Dr. Carabella is of the opinion that with this new method, physical examination will reduce which is not good for pateints
Concept: To answer the following question with the help of given dialogue.
Answer:
From the conversation between Dr. Jones and Dr. Carabella, it is clear that they have a difference of opinion regarding the topic impacts of telemedicine.
Dr. Jones believed that telemedicine will provide improvement in all rural patient care hospitals as it will allow doctors to televise medical exams to specialists those who live far away. They will able to provide expert advise which otherwise rural patient wouldn't receive whereas Dr. Carabella thinks with the new method of telemedicine physical exam will eventually reduce which is not good for patients.
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