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Originally Posted by ULTRON
Personally, I don't see anything wrong with online basic science education. Why? My mom is a nurse, and do you know how docs "see" patients these days? On the phone!! My mom examines a patient and reports to the doc by the Internet, the sucker then sends a diagnosis through email. How does he diagnose? From his PDA for cryin out loud. And guess what? Some hospitals email X rays to docs in India who read it from there and reply through email. And then boards tell us that online education is bad. This is pathetic.
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This is because there is a HUGE difference between technology like teleradiology and telepathology (of which you mentioned in your post) and distance learning through correspondance schools via the internet (search for it as it's been discussed ad nauseum on VMD).
And for your mom's employer who is "diagnosing" patients he's not physically seeing and examining...I wonder how he's doing the billing and who's getting paid for techinical/professional component?