A large proportion of injuries can be treated "hands-off". Many UK hospital trusts have physio/PT phonelines. But I think they're paying lip service to telehealth.
Instead of making the appointment the default option, why not make the "hands-off" service the default option?
It's high in my thoughts & here's a blog post I wrote a few weeks ago.
Save the next generation by copying what these two French towns did and implement it in every school and community. Education of children and their parents transformed the communities and reversed the childhood obesity trend. See: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid...
i feel that people at the hospital have in the same routine and they are just working they will not really treat me like a person, but like a folder ,so what about reviewing the way they think they are giving me a service !!
To ensure that physician education contains a portion of unbiased information not generated by companies that profit from uptake, governments should provide evidenced based guidelines for physicians though detailing and continuing medical education events.
An Idea is a thought on how the experience of healthcare could be better. You provide a concrete action step. We are looking for simple, low-tech ideas that can make change quickly.
