Telemedicine

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Telemedicine is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between March 29, 2023 and April 03, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “Telemedicine is when you see a doctor (or nurse, PA, etc) over a video call”; ““a special registration process for telemedicine to allow providers to prescribe controlled substances remotely.”“. It most often appears alongside Adderall, DEA, Ritalin.

Metadata

• Category: Concepts
• Mention count: 2
• Issue count: 2
• First seen: March 29, 2023
• Last seen: April 03, 2023

Appears In

• The Government Is Making Telemedicine Hard And Inconvenient Again
• Highlights From The Comments On Telemedicine Regulations

Related Pages

• • Adderall (2 shared issues)
• • DEA (2 shared issues)
• • Ritalin (2 shared issues)
• • 2008 Act (1 shared issues)
• • ACX (1 shared issues)
• • ADHD (1 shared issues)
• • Ambien (1 shared issues)
• • American IRS (1 shared issues)
• • Astine (1 shared issues)
• • Australia (1 shared issues)
• • Bay Area (1 shared issues)
• • Bible Belt (1 shared issues)

External Links

• • https://abc7news.com/post/graffiti-in-san-francisco-tagging-vandalism-street/13801629/
• • https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-government-is-making-telemedicine
• • https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/secrets-of-the-great-families
• • https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/01/2023-04248/telemedicine-prescribing-of-controlled-substances-when-the-practitioner-and-the-patient-have-not-had
• • https://www.neonarrative.us/p/an-interview-with-scott-alexander
• • https://www.statista.com/chart/21581/public-opinion-on-easing-stay-at-home-restrictions/

Source Context

Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

The Government Is Making Telemedicine Hard And Inconvenient Again

March 29, 2023 · Original source

Telemedicine is when you see a doctor (or nurse, PA, etc) over a video call. Medical regulators hate new things, so for its first decade they ensured telemedicine was hard and inconvenient.

Then came COVID-19. Suddenly important politicians were paying attention to questions about whether people could get medical care without leaving their homes. They yelled at the regulators, and the regulators grudgingly agreed to temporarily make telemedicine easy and convenient.

They say “nothing is as permanent as a temporary government program”, but this only applies to government programs that make your life worse. Government programs that make your life better are ephemeral and can disappear at any moment. So a few months ago, the medical regulators woke up, realized the pandemic was over, and started plotting ways to make telemedicine hard and inconvenient again.

Highlights From The Comments On Telemedicine Regulations

April 03, 2023 · Original source

[Original post: The Government Is Making Telemedicine Hard And Inconvenient Again]

Inline links: The Government Is Making Telemedicine Hard And Inconvenient Again

1: Isn’t drug addiction very bad? 2: Is telemedicine worse than regular medicine? 3: What about “pill mills”? 4: Do people force the blind to fill out forms before they can access Braille? 5: Was I unfairly caricaturing Christian doctors? 6: Which part of the government is responsible for this regulation? 7: How do other countries do this?

Some people countered that drug addiction was very bad, and preventing it is worth some inconvenience. For example, Michael van der Ruyt:

Inline links: Michael van der Ruyt

Backlinks

• Concepts: T
• Highlights From The Comments On Telemedicine Regulations
• Ritalin
• The Government Is Making Telemedicine Hard And Inconvenient Again