"I Wish I Were Making This Up!"

By Elizabeth on June 30, 2024

A couple of days ago I saw an advertisement for a local healthcare conglomerate. They have been quite active buying up small hospitals and physician's practices lately and have in fact been sued by some. But this new enterprise amazed me. This "service" which you can explore further at their web site https://onmed.com/ promises an exciting new way to "see" the doctor.

After commiserating with the difficulty of seeing your own doctor, this option assures you that this will be just as good. I find that ironic since the same company urges you to always have a primary care doctor. And most insurance plans here insist on the same. But apparently even your doctor can be outsourced to this video/camera encounter.

As you can see from the promotion material, they omit the touch and smell that a real doctor uses when making a diagnosis. But perhaps they will find a way to add this to the robot camera that descends from the ceiling for a visit.

Somebody tell me I am having a very bad dream!