"In terms of disease management,” stated Dr. Devi Shetty in Sanjit Bagchi’s article Telemedicine in Rural India,
“there is [a] 99% possibility that the person who is unwell does not
require [an] operation. If you don't operate you don't need to touch the
patient. And if you don't need to touch the patient, you don't need to
be there. You can be anywhere, since the decision on healthcare
management is based on history and interpretation of images and
chemistry...so technically speaking, 99% of health-care problems can be
managed by the doctors staying at a remote place—linked by
telemedicine.”Read more »
