{"id":15765,"date":"2020-04-15T10:15:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T14:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15765"},"modified":"2020-04-15T10:15:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T14:15:56","slug":"how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-virtual-medical-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15765","title":{"rendered":"How To Get The Most Out Of Your Virtual Medical Appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Mara Gordon for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a primary care doctor, and, in normal times, my favorite part of the job is getting to see my patients regularly. But because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, I&#8217;ve had to substantially cut down on in-person visits to help put the brakes on the spread of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>In this time of high medical anxiety, the phones at my clinic have, understandably, been ringing off the hook.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2020\/04\/15\/828084250\/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-virtual-medical-appointment\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Mara Gordon for NPR) I&#8217;m a primary care doctor, and, in normal times, my favorite part of the job is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-telehealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15766,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15765\/revisions\/15766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}