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the surprising 150-year history of long-term treatment


the surprising 150-year history of long-term treatment

Debbie Passey for The Conversation Melbourne: In 1874, a surgeon in South Australia transmitted wound care instructions to a patient 2,000 kilometers away. A few years later, in 1879, a letter in the medical journal The Lancet suggested that doctors should use the telephone to avoid unnecessary patient visits. With the proliferation of the telephone […]