Tips for telephonic consultation with your doctor

This pandemic has increased use of consulting doctor remotely via telephone/mobile app etc. This was very well in practice it was convenient to patients and people would love to call a dr at their convenience and save time.

Given current scenario this is now widely used and in the safety of all patients and providers and government has also come out with very good guidelines for making it widely used and safe.

Some important points which one needs to take care while consulting doctor remotely.

1. Make sure you do not call directly without prior appointment. Doctor might be busy examining other patients and can lead to problems and cause lots of inconvenience also.
2. Seek appointment with reception or drop a message before calling. No direct calling.
3. share some basic details like your name,age,current medicines and present complain in brief so that doctor is prepared while talking to you. This saves time and one can focus on important aspects which will help in making nearly correct diagnosis and suggest treatment.
4. Patient only needs to talk or interact. Patient is the right person who can convey things properly and understand. Only in few cases like kids or very old patients relatives can be involved.
5. Do mention very clearly any drug allergy if you have.
6. Ask for written prescription to avoid confusion and mistakes later.
7. Online/telephonic consultation are chargeable so be clear about charges before initiating a consultation.
8. Regular follow up is important in many conditions so take care of doing that.
9. Keep useful information handy like blood pressure chart etc
10. Keep the conversation short and to the point.

I think this will make your online consultation easy for both sides and safe.

Do follow and circulate.

Thanks.