Actually this shows that minority were positive (48%) with majority being negative or neutral. The headline admits ‘mixed’ reception.

Also interesting is that those accepting virtual consultations, are more tolerant of this being with a doctor they do not know. In my experience these are generally well, young patients. We have to make sure that we don’t start designing health services around this demographic. Some would say that this has started happening in England.

Thanks
AM

Unfortunately I don’t have the US report, and I think it’s not available online.

In Portugal we don’t have solid data regarding the telephone consultations (they were never object of adequate research) but I’m pretty sure they represent around 10% of a daily GP work (email consultations are still residual).

There is a group of colleagues from the Portuguese Association of GPs that are starting a research project on this subject. As soon as the data is available, I will let you know.

Many thanks,

Alex.