Physicians also have a philosophic anchor in their lives.
Those without a philosophic anchor are destined to spend their lives wandering and wondering, never reaching a conclusion. Do not offer medical advice to someone you personally have not seen physically, touched, and examined in real time. Allen D. Lewis, MD 980 E Third St Whitehall Building, Suite 514 Chattanooga, TN 37403 1. Furthermore, the assumption that any remote consultation would require physical examination is not supported by our evidence, showing that the majority of questions are in fact not diagnostic in nature but so general that they often do not even require a physician to answer. The role of physicians in the information age is changing, in that they increasingly have to act as health guides, mediators, and information brokers for patients and consumers.