coronavirus pandemic continues to evolve for health-care providers in how they deliver service to patients.Family doctors in the City of Kawartha Lakes, Ont., are conducting many appointments online in a virtual setting.Dr.
Naomi Ecob of the local family health team says that also comes with its own set of challenges.“On the phone, you lack some of the visual cues or the non-verbal cues from a patient to help make a diagnosis,” Ecob said on a virtual town hall by Kawartha Lakes health care providers. “It often takes longer to make a diagnosis and even after a phone call I need to have some patients come into the office.”Ecob said doctors offices remain open for acute care and ongoing chronic disease management and care.For those who do.