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By MILT FREUDENHEIM
Published: May 28, 2010
New York Times
<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/business/30telemed.html>
ONE day last summer, Charlie Martin felt a sharp pain in his lower back.
But he couldn't jump into his car and rush to the doctor's office or the
emergency room: Mr. Martin, a crane operator, was working on an oil rig in
the South China Sea off Malaysia.
He could, though, get in touch with a doctor thousands of miles away, via
two-way video. Using an electronic stethoscope that a paramedic on the rig
held in place, Dr. Oscar W. Boultinghouse, an emergency medicine physician
in Houston, listened to Mr. Martin's heart.
"The extreme pain strongly suggested a kidney stone," Dr. Boultinghouse
said later. A urinalysis on the rig confirmed the diagnosis, and Mr.
Martin flew to his home in Mississippi for treatment.
Mr. Martin, 32, is now back at work on the same rig, the Courageous,
leased by Shell Oil. He says he is grateful he could discuss his pain by
video with the doctor. "It's a lot better than trying to describe it on a
phone," Mr. Martin says.
Dr. Boultinghouse and two colleagues - Michael J. Davis and Glenn G.
Hammack- run NuPhysicia, a start-up company they spun out from the
University of Texas in 2007 that specializes in face-to-face telemedicine,
connecting doctors and patients by two-way video.
Spurred by health care trends and technological advances, telemedicine is
growing into a mainstream industry. A fifth of Americans live in places
where primary care physicians are scarce, according to government
statistics. That need is converging with advances that include lower costs
for video-conferencing equipment, more high-speed communications links by
satellite, and greater ability to work securely and dependably over the
Internet.
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