{"id":1475,"date":"2024-06-13T23:50:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T23:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/pre-op-visits-by-video-most-surgeons-say-no-but-are-open-to-post-op-telehealth\/"},"modified":"2024-06-13T23:50:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T23:50:18","slug":"pre-op-visits-by-video-most-surgeons-say-no-but-are-open-to-post-op-telehealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/pre-op-visits-by-video-most-surgeons-say-no-but-are-open-to-post-op-telehealth\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-op visits by video? Most surgeons say no\u2014but are open to post-op telehealth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Graphical abstract. Credit: Surgery (2024). DOI: 10.1016\/j.surg.2024.03.033 Surgery may seem like the ultimate telehealth-proof medical discipline. After all, a surgical team can&#8217;t operate on someone over a video connection. But what about the appointments that patients have in their surgeon&#8217;s office weeks before and after their operations? A new study shows that most surgeons aren&#8217;t ready to meet their patients virtually for pre-op appointments, even if the patients have had all the necessary tests, imaging scans and measurements that inform surgeons&#8217; decisions. However, half of surgeons are open to converting <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/pre-op-visits-by-video-most-surgeons-say-no-but-are-open-to-post-op-telehealth\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graphical abstract. Credit: Surgery (2024). DOI: 10.1016\/j.surg.2024.03.033 Surgery may seem like the ultimate telehealth-proof medical discipline. After all, a surgical team can&#8217;t operate on someone over a video connection. But what about the appointments that patients have in their surgeon&#8217;s office weeks before and after their operations? A new study shows that most surgeons aren&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}