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Online Medical Consultation

Online medical consultation is the light-diagnosis and question-answering category in No.206 检索、送药、看病:互联网医疗这些年 | 中国互联网故事22. 春雨医生 is the source’s main example: users had many low-acuity questions that could reduce anxiety without immediately going to a hospital.

The episode’s central caution is economic and clinical. Consultation is useful, but it is hard to standardize, hard to price, and often sits upstream from the higher-value parts of healthcare: tests, drugs, procedures, hospitalization, chronic management, and insurance payment.

70.医生,你在想什么:少看百度,以及吃药时别吃西柚啊 adds the clinician-risk view. When a patient asks a doctor for remote advice through the internet or WeChat, the doctor may recommend going to a hospital because Medical Risk Management requires ruling out severe low-probability outcomes that cannot be checked without examination.

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