Just looked at my blog and I haven't written anything since October. 2012 was a slow blogging year too. So I wanted to pop on and say hello.
Hi.
We have had a busy winter. Luckily no one got the Chicago flu, but we have all gotten sick the last month. After hoping that I would get better on my own, but 3 weeks later, I finally went to a doc-in-the-box. The doctor wasn't there so I saw the "virtual doctor"
It was really cool. There was a medical assistant who took my blood pressure, pulse, and temperature. She added those to the computer as well as my symptoms. Then the stethoscope was attached to the computer so she would just hit record and then record my heart sounds. Same with my lung sounds.
The otoscope was also connected to the computer. She would take a picture of my ears and throat and saved them to the computer too. This was really cool because she showed me where my eardrum was and where the fluid was bulging behind it. If I worked there I would check my ears out every day!
Then she submitted it all to the doctor. There were three other locations and whichever had a doctor available first would review it. In less than 5 minutes a doctor in Peoria was skyping me. He asked about my history and said that it looked like I just had an upper resp. infection. He sent in a prescription and waited for it to go through and then signed off.
I paid $39 and was on my way. The future of medicine is seeing a robot doctor. :)
