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How effective is telemedicine, really?

What is it about telemedicine that makes it so controversial? Take a base of spicy legislative battles over the last few years, stir in the contentious issue of changing the rules to allow electronic veterinarian-client-patient relationships (eVCPRs), and sprinkle in some changing demographics and a dash venture capitalism, and you have now got a steamy bowl of “Hot and Spicy Veterinary Telemedicine Controversy Soup.”

Revisiting a landmark case from the past

Alice, a two-year-old mixed breed dog, presented to the emergency service of the Veterinary Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania one weekend in November 2004. The pooch had unknown trauma while spending time on a large farm in York, Pa.

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