{"id":1892,"date":"2007-09-20T20:28:45","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T20:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2007\/09\/20\/a_different_app.html"},"modified":"2007-09-20T20:28:45","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T20:28:45","slug":"a_different_app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2007\/09\/20\/a_different_app.html","title":{"rendered":"a different approach to medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a herf=\"http:\/\/www.jayparkinsonmd.com\/\">Jay Parkinson<\/a> is a doctor in Williamsburg who does e-visits. Think you need stitches?  Send him a picture and he&#8217;ll advise via video chat\/IM\/email\/etc.  It&#8217;s a pretty fascinating approach to medicine and I&#8217;m curious how well it&#8217;ll scale. Unfortunately, this approach doesn&#8217;t play nice with health insurance.  I&#8217;m having a hard time imagining who will pay a annual fee for this who wouldn&#8217;t have health insurance. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;d *love* to have a personal doctor but the cost would be prohibitive for me. And it&#8217;s all fine and well to do this instead of traditional health if you&#8217;re relatively healthy, but if things go dreadfully wrong, you&#8217;re going to want health insurance.  Does a practice like this discourage young people from being responsible in maintaining health insurance?  Anyhow, I&#8217;m fascinated.  Cuz goddess knows I hate clinics and hospitals.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Tx <a href=\"http:\/\/dream.berkeley.edu\/~ryanshaw\/wordpress\/bio\/\">Ryan Shaw<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Parkinson is a doctor in Williamsburg who does e-visits. Think you need stitches? Send him a picture and he&#8217;ll advise via video chat\/IM\/email\/etc. It&#8217;s a pretty fascinating approach to medicine and I&#8217;m curious how well it&#8217;ll scale. Unfortunately, this approach doesn&#8217;t play nice with health insurance. I&#8217;m having a hard time imagining who will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[255],"class_list":["post-1892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-links","tag-medicine-doctors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}