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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 9707778" data-attributes="member: 19675">Ideally, what telehealth does is project training and knowledge into spaces far removed from it.  If the top practitioners can consult with locals, that usually results in better overall healthcare results.(Amusingly, some of the best results are seen in veterinary practice, where a vet in Wisconsin can contact a renown specialist in herpetology over an exotic snake’s venom, or a zoo can find out why their binturong isn’t eating properly from an expert from their native habitat.)But telehealth only goes so far.  A lot of diagnoses are based on what a health care professional can see, hear, or smell, and computer tech can’t deliver that right now.  Lab tests are more for confirmation than diagnosis in those cases.  For example, my Mom’s first appointment with a certain specialist resulted in a diagnosis in seconds of her initial visit, based on his experience seeing similar symptoms over decades.  Certain afflictions cause distinctive respiratory effects, like Whooping Cough.  Fruity breath can be an early indicator of diabetes, and many other conditions can have distinctive odors, like GI bleeds, a major urinary tract infection, and an infection in which necrosis or gangrene has set in.</blockquote>