Dr. Rahul Sharma: Medical Virtualist- Moving Medicine Into the 21st Century: Are We Entering the Era of the Medical Virtualist?

Drs. Rahul Sharma and Michael Nochomovitz author an opinion piece, published in JAMA, which examined the way a medical virtualist specialty could tie in with currently existing telemedicine services.
With the rapid rise in technologic advances and the increase in medical specialties in the last half-century, the creation of a new specialty — the medical virtualist — could be an effective response to new care challenges.