How to make a doctor's appointment over the phone

This post will brief about how one can easily book the doctor's appointment over the phone and how telemedicine is beneficial these days. Read to know and avail the benefit at the comfort of the home.

While the Covid-19 pandemic has hit the world drastically, booking the doctor's appointment online has become the need of the hour to comply with the social distancing norms. Hence, telemedicine is essential as it is conducted using video-conferencing tools while restricting physical presence. This makes sure that patients don't have to compromise on their health check-up in any circumstances. Thus, this post will brief you about how you can book a doctor's appointment online and how it is beneficial.

1.    How to book an appointment online: 

In renowned hospitals like Max healthcare, one can book the appointment by calling the hospital and fixing the specific doctor's appointment. The other easy way is to refer to their website. On the "book an appointment" category, one can choose the specialized doctor under "the doctor" or "speciality category search" and accordingly select the location. It will then show lists of doctors from which one can choose the preferred doctor and select the video consultation category.

2.    Benefit of video consultation or telemedicine:

As simple as booking the doctor's appointment online, there are many benefits associated with consulting doctors' telemedicine system. Here are some of the mentioned ones:

• The patients who had limited access to specialized health care services can now have access to physicians at the comfort of their home.
• With medical streaming devices, the aged can consult a doctor without moving out of the house.
• People are safer with telemedicine consultation as contagious disease patients don't have to get exposed to others while travelling to the hospital or waiting in crowded waiting rooms. 
• Cost-effective as the patient doesn't have to travel to the hospital.  
• One doesn't have to miss their work due to a doctor's appointment.
  

Since everything is available at the click of a button, mobile health or video consultations aren't just a blessing to the patients, but it has become a convenient approach for the doctors to attend to more patients than before. So the next time you need to consult a doctor, don't hesitate and book the doctor's appointment online as it's convenient, quick, and cost-effective.