If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll probably end up somewhere else. — Yogi Berra During the Covid-19 health crisis many organizations hastily launched telehealth. For many it was a stop-gap measure — an interim, makeshift alternative to [...]

In the 2000s people would remember vividly where they were on 9/11/2001 when the news broke of the attack on the Twin Towers in New York City. In the 2020s many people will probably remember where they were when the [...]

In March of 2020, the Covid-19 health crisis rapidly increased the healthcare-wide adoption of telehealth as an alternative care delivery modality. But in most clinics and health centers who previously had had no exposure to telehealth, the use of [...]

When I think of dentistry I have images of big syringes with mouth-numbing (and mind-numbing) tinctures inside. I hear noises of drills and feel the anticipation of pain that surely will come soon. In summary, my view of dentistry [...]

Many of us, mostly in college, have come across the concept of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. To reach the highest level, that of self-actualization, people first need to have some of their basic (physiological) needs met, such as breathing, [...]

During the height of the Covid-19 health crisis in the spring of 2020, the use of telehealth to deliver care skyrocketed into Himalayan altitudes. In 2020, Medicare fee-for-service telehealth use increased 63-fold from 840,000 to 52.7 million. Especially those [...]