{"id":31797,"date":"2021-09-24T06:34:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T06:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=31797"},"modified":"2021-09-24T06:34:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T06:34:43","slug":"if-i-hadnt-seen-my-patient-in-person-hed-have-died-thats-why-it-would-be-a-disaster-to-rely-on-remote-appointments-writes-dr-martin-scurr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/09\/24\/if-i-hadnt-seen-my-patient-in-person-hed-have-died-thats-why-it-would-be-a-disaster-to-rely-on-remote-appointments-writes-dr-martin-scurr\/","title":{"rendered":"If I HADN&#8217;T seen my patient in person, he&#8217;d have died&#8230; that&#8217;s why it would be a disaster to rely on remote appointments, writes DR MARTIN SCURR"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22398\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dr-patien-cartoon-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dr-patien-cartoon-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dr-patien-cartoon-500x375.png 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dr-patien-cartoon.png 644w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some weeks ago one of my former patients, a man in his mid-70s, asked if I would meet him.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/debate\/article-10023403\/If-HADNT-seen-patient-person-hed-died-writes-DR-MARTIN-SCURR.html\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Some weeks ago one of my former patients, a man in his mid-70s, asked if I would meet him. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dr-patien-cartoon.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31798,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31797\/revisions\/31798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}