“Online” and “at-home” versus traditional models of health care: enhancing access or impeding optimal therapeutics?

Before the advent of telehealth, prescription medication was available to patients only through a physical encounter in a hospital or clinic with a physician. Currently, in the United States, policies exist allowing the prescription of a wide range of medications after a telehealth visit (1). Our first instinct is to be skeptical of virtual efforts to treat reproductive and sexual health conditions because of our ingrained notion that a physical examination is essential in formally evaluating all medical conditions, and therefore assessing risk-benefit profiles for medications.

Source: Fertility and Sterility - August 31, 2020 Category: Reproduction Medicine Authors: Raul Clavijo, Ranjith Ramasamy, Joshua Halpern, Alexis Melnick, Joshua Stewart, Zev Rosenwaks, Robert Brannigan Tags: Fertile battle Source Type: research