The most remote emergency room: Life and death in rural America - The Washington Post

The most remote emergency room: Life and death in rural America - The Washington Post: If anything defines the growing health gap between rural and urban America, it’s the rise of emergency telemedicine in the poorest, sickest, and most remote parts of the country, where the choice is increasingly to have a doctor on screen or no doctor at all. These physicians, often hundreds of miles away, work out of cubicles instead of exam rooms and never directly see or touch their patients.