On 30 January 1998 17:14, Hugh de Glanville [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
wrote:
> Gerard:
>
> Telemedicine covers a lot more than use of the Internet. At a recent
> conference a rheumatology consultant from Leeds described (in a formal
> paper) how he telephones some of his patients to find out how they are
and
> save them the trouble of coming up to his outpatients just to have 2
words
> with him and go home again.
> And someone else reminded us that perhaps the earliest use of
telemedicine
> was when a Seamen's mission society in New York took out a licence in, I
> think, 1920, to advise mariners on medical problems by radio. This
concept
> was further developed by the Italian organisation that since 1937 has
> maintained a world medical service by radio to mariners anywhere who get
in
> touch with it needing advice or help.
1920 - pah - I believe that as far back as 1856 medics were exchanging
Daguerre plates with each other, one famous example showing a man with
fibramatosis having an aneurysm by anastomosis (well that's what I'd been
told :-)).
Assuming you define telemedicine as "medicine over distance", then the
whole history of medical photography is a form of telemedicine.
John Farenden
Secta, Triton House, Hare Park Lane, Liversedge, West Yorkshire
Tel +44 (0) 1274 852160 Fax +44 (0) 1274 852159
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