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Teleconsultation simply means obtaining the professional opinion of a healthcare provider who is not physically present at the location where the patient and/or his primary healthcare provider are.
Teleconsultation takes many forms. A doctor at one hospital calling a senior colleague at another hospital to get his opinion regarding a difficult case is practicing one form of teleconsultation. A senior specialist at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, providing live consultation through video-conferencing to a 4-year-old boy with cleft palate and his medical team located in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is practicing another form of teleconsultation.
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What is Teleconsultation?
