The Telegraph.co.uk, Englands first daily online newspaper (1994) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/05/utube105.xml
reports in its issue from Jan. 9th, 2007 about a YouTube niche. Doctors discover youTube for their own purposes.The article commences as follows:
»Doctors in rural Wales have started using the YouTube website as a novel way of giving health advice to patients. Whilst the video-sharing website has come under fire recently for its occasionally shocking content, one GPs’ surgery is using it for altogether more wholesome purposes.
Builth and Llanwrtyd Medical Practice, in rural Mid Wales, has uploaded a number of short films it has made to offer health advice on topical issues and help people avoid unnecessary travelling to a see a doctor. The videos so far include the effective use of asthma inhalers, smear testing, blood sugar testing and the winter flu vaccine.«
This is the link where you find the videos giving you health advice.
Emebdding funnily enough was enabled in the moment I wanted to give you
a taster. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Zjwcx7Zbs&mode=related&search=
We at biestmilch.com http://www.biestmilch.de/index.php?id=4 are doing a lot of advising through the telephone. Such telephone talks need training, the ability to listen carefully and to put preconceptions aside. It is a very sound and delicate process. I think the possibilities to counsel patients in this way are very limited.
When I was still working in the hospital it was even forbidden to give therapeutic advices on the phone. We had to examine the patient first, no remote diagnosis and by no means a remote therapy regimen, this was the rule. I have big doubts whether this way of communicating health issues is supportive.
First of all because the relationship between the therapist and the patient is essential for a successful treatment, and misunderstanding between both parties because of the different levels of expertise are an imminent problem with somtetimes far-reaching consequences in every therapeutic relation. Therefore, we should be very careful by giving advices to an anonymous counterpart somewhere out there on the internet, even though the advices seem to hit the point sharply, and are more or less only tchnical by nature. There is always an exception from the rule, and, you never know when you are going to meet it.
