written by: Ed Tobias – Apr3, 2020
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Dr. Barry Singer also has moved to virtual visits. Singer, who directs The MS Center for Innovations in Care in St. Louis, Missouri, said his center treats about 4,000 MS patients. During the center’s first week of telemedicine, none have come into the office.
“It’s odd,” Singer told me, “especially for MS docs. We know our patients quite well. … [W]hen you do it visually [rather than remotely], at least you have that human connection. … There’s definitely a lot lost, but if I’m seeing 15 MS patients a day, all it takes is one asymptomatic patient and they start passing it on, patient to patient.”
Technology can be a challenge
Not everyone is computer and internet savvy. “For some people, it’s very seamless,” Singer said. “Some people come on and they’ve got audio and video, some people have video but they don’t have the audio. … I’ve had a patient who [was online] when he was a passenger in a car. I had to say, ‘Can you pull over, please, so I can see you walk.’ So, it can be a little challenging, but most of the reception from people with MS has been very positive.”
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