As I was listening to a seminar on racial disparities in colorectal cancer screening yesterday, the speaker brought up an excellent point about the importance of virtual empathy going forward in this new era of telemedicine. He stressed that we need to think of ways to integrate empathy into our virtual interactions with patients because […]
Pros and Cons of Telemedicine
My re-introduction into clinical rotations after the COVID-19 halt was an outpatient Allergy and Immunology elective. This clerkship was entirely outpatient-based, and thus all virtual. It was not only my first time participating in a telemedicine rotation but also the department’s first time, as this was their first week reopening clinics. The rotation went surprisingly […]
