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Telemedicine being used more widely amid pandemic as patients are more receptive to it

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Ms Greta Susan d'Rozario (left) having a video call session with Dr Alexander Yip from Alexandra Hospital last month. Helping her with the session was Mrs Audrey Wee, her niece-in-law. The telemedicine service provided by the hospital is convenient a

Ms Greta Susan d'Rozario (left) having a video call session with Dr Alexander Yip from Alexandra Hospital last month. Helping her with the session was Mrs Audrey Wee, her niece-in-law. The telemedicine service provided by the hospital is convenient and allows Ms d'Rozario to avoid going to the hospital amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Ms Greta Susan d'Rozario is 86 and she recently completed two video-call consultations with her doctors last month.
Her verdict? She said there was "not much" difference between seeing her doctor in person and online.
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