Virtual Consultations With Doctors ‘Disastrous’ for Some Patients: UK Study

Virtual Consultations With Doctors ‘Disastrous’ for Some Patients: UK Study
Sandra Dohmen, senior physician at the University hospital in Aachen, uses telemedicine for the treatment of COVID-19 patients, in Aachen, western Germany, on Jan. 20, 2021. Ina Fassbender/AFP via Getty Images
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Phone or video consultations with doctors can be “disastrous” for some patients, though some find them to be “more convenient,” a new UK study has found.

According to the study conducted by researchers from Cambridge University, patients regard so-called “telemedicine” to have “increased misdiagnoses, inequalities, and barriers to accessing care,” but more than 60 percent found it to be “more convenient.”