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Greg Walden: “Again, if I could take my phone into the home and have the doctor on the other side, which we all know can be done…”

On the recordSeptember 30, 2015
Again, if I could take my phone into the home and have the doctor on the other side, which we all know can be done today, why should we have to transport a patient 142 miles over icy, foggy roads for a face-to-face so they can go back home?
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Greg Walden
Republican · Oregon

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Walden questions the necessity of in-person doctor visits for home care.

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