As many as four in 10 doctors are now working with patients online, replacing office visits with something quicker- and cheaper. But how good is the care? IT STARTS OUT LIKE ANY OTHER VISIT TO THE doctor for a sore throat. First we have to wait 15 minutes. Then we meet the doctor, a grandmotherly type who asks us about medications and how long we've had our hacking cough. Finally, she asks us to open wide - and things get a little weird. She is, after all, not in the room with us but on the other end or a webcam connection, 100 miles away. So we'll need to awkwardly straddle our desk to give her a glimpse of our gullet.
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