Insurance
Nov. 13, 2014
Insurance risks of easy medicine and doctorless doctoring
Entrepreneurs and health care providers have expanded telemedicine and created platforms for on-demand health care services available 24/7. But there are unanswered insurance questions.
Tad A. Devlin
Partner
Kaufman, Dolowich & Voluck LLP
Phone: (415) 926-7600
Email: tdevlin@kdvlaw.com
McGeorge SOL Univ of the Pacific; CA
Tad focuses his practice in the areas of commercial and insurance litigation, ERISA/life, health and disability benefit disputes, including breach of fiduciary liability claims, profit sharing plan and employee stock plan disputes, real estate, financial services disputes, professional liability and disciplinary defense (lawyers, doctors, accountants, real estate, insurance agents, architects and engineers), and white collar defense.
The worst part of going to the doctor's office is the waiting time spent in the lobby and/or your designated room. It's typically an all-day affair. So what do people do now instead? What they do for everything: turn to the Internet. Googling symptoms or searching WebMD is nearly instantaneous, easy and can provide quick reassurance. The problem is that even the common cold can lead self-doctors to diagnose themselves with a terminal illness. Hypochondriac behavior lurks in all of us. <...
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