Opinion: My patients want the good old days of office visits. That’s not happening any time soon
I recently got a note from my secretary with this message from a patient: “Tell the doctor I have no interest in a phone call or one of those video visits. When she is back to seeing patients again in the office, let me know.”
I’m hearing that a lot lately from patients who continue to delay routine medical care, not due to fears of Covid-19 but because they yearn for the old face-to-face office visit. I worry about what the refusal to have a virtual visit means for my patients’ health and for a strained primary care system trying to care for patients during a pandemic.
