Doctor Urges Telemedicine Use

Dr. David Wheeler, President of the Wyoming Medical Society, took time during Governor Gordon’s news conference Monday to appeal to the practitioners around the state to limit their exposure to patients who might be carrying the COVID-19 virus.
At the presser held Monday, Wheeler said, “I am today encouraging all of my physician and other provider colleagues to stop performing in person clinic visits, and to instead to adopt the use the tele-health as much as possible, except in the cases of emergencies. At the same time, we are recommending as a society that individual providers cancel all elective procedures which are unnecessarily wasting personal protective equipment that needs to be preserved for the expected surge in patients to come.”
Moreover, Dr. Wheeler says if we do not act now, it is certain we will use up all the available resources for healthcare in our state in just a matter of weeks. Dr. Wheeler also points out that if the physicians and nurses themselves fall ill there will be no backup and people will no longer have access to basic care – not just from the coronavirus, but from other health problems like heart attacks, strokes, injuries, appendicitis as well.
 

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