In the Global Village, technical advances have enabled Residents to elect home care vs. hospitalization. Remote patient monitoring devices allow physicians to track a patient's heart and breathing rate, weight changes, and activity levels using enhanced telemedicine technology.
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In the early days of the Industrial Park, it was not unusual for doctors to make "house calls" for those too sick to come to the office and who could not afford hospitalization services.
In the early days of the Global Village, it was not unusual for patients to receive hospital-level care in the comfort of their own homes. Although both doctor and patient had to be comfortable with computers, cell phones, and video conference calls, the pandemic provided the impetus to provide hospital care for patients already quarantined at home.
In the Global Village, providing effective and safe care in people's homes has provided comfort and affordability. Seems like the more things have changed, the more they have remained the same.
That's just the way it is in the Global Village.
