Pandemic Forces Some Patients to Phone in Doctor Visits

Pandemic Forces Some Patients to Phone in Doctor Visits
TeleHealth Access for Seniors, Yale student Hannah Verma poses for a photograph near a table with mobile devices in Longwood, Fla. on May 3, 2020. Arjun Verma/TeleHealth Access for Seniors via AP
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Video telemedicine took off earlier this year as the coronavirus paused in-person doctor visits. Earl Egner missed that trend.

The 84-year-old diabetic and cancer survivor has no computer or cellphone. Instead, he relies on a form of communication older than himself—the telephone—to talk to doctors as he stays hunkered down in his Somerset, Virginia, home.