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In this episode, Amy interviews Jesse Tonkinson, a medical student and first-time father. He shares his pandemic experience and perspective on telehealth as he witnessed first-hand personally and professionally.

“It’s extremely hard to Facetime or Zoom and understand what the doctor is talking about. You’re just sitting in the parking lot, and you know, the phone dies and you’re just stuck there in the parking lot crying and wishing that you could be there.”

Highlights:

0:44- “What was it like adapting to medical school during a global health crisis?”

1:08- “My daughter was born in August 2020”

1:47- “Our experience as patients…I was just the driver”

2:18- “By the time we got to delivery in August”

2:58- “As a medical student, I got to deliver”

3:30- “Each week as we got closer and closer to delivery we would meet with a different doctor”

4:30- “You might be entering into your first virtual appointment”

4:49- “Eye contact is a huge piece of that”

5:59- “The more of you the doctor can see, the better”

6:33- “If you are impaired in sight or hearing”

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Amy Finkelstein, Technical Support Specialist afinkelstein@ghlf.org

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In this episode Amy speaks with her friend and colleague, Danielle, about her personal experiences with telehealth as well as her insights about cyber security.

“I’m at the stage where I’m just trying to take control of things that I don’t have control of because they’re either genetic or I’ve been ignoring because I’ve just been trying to get to my career and get through. When you have to meet a doctor for the first time via telehealth, they’re not familiar with the software. I’m a patient I’m not familiar with you, your practices, your software, anything. It was very jarring for me.”

Highlights:

0:45- Danielle’s experience with telehealth before the pandemic

2:13- Danielle’s pandemic experience

3:11- Amy’s first experience with telehealth

3:53- “I found my therapist because of the pandemic”

4:40- “There’s so many things we have to adapt to”

5:33- “Taking Grams to the doctor”

6:42- “Patient portals- what are they?”

7:00- “Patient portals and cyber security”

Contact our host:

Amy Finkelstein, Technical Support Specialist afinkelstein@ghlf.org

We want to hear what you think. Send your comments, or a video or audio clip of yourself to patientlyconnecting@ghlf.org

Listen to all episodes of Patiently Connecting on your favorite podcast channel. See Omny Studio  for privacy information.

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In a world surprised by COVID-19, the way we visit doctors changed, adapted, and grew. Telehealth was not new before the pandemic, but it was not widely used –since March 2020 everything changed, and telehealth is now here to stay. What does this mean for patients? For providers? Come with Tech Amy to learn about the world of telehealth while it develops.

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