One of the things that is here in American Life and letters is the use of reason. In many ways however incomplete or unfinished it was about putting reason at the center of our national experience. If you think about what is unfolding. Heading into philadelphia in 1776. It had been a story of a reorienting the world from being seen as vertical. With an incident of election were given authority over all of us. You have the european enlightenment. You have the protestant reformations. In entire reorientation of the world not complete at the beginning of that shift. When they sat down in the last of june in 1776 to write the declaration of independence he was seeking to create the fullest lyrical manifestation of that cultural shift. It was incomplete, it is unfinished it was in the history of a fallen people in a sinful world. It was a step forward. Maybe not as far forward as we would like but a step forward nonetheless. I think with the American Experience it hinges on the capacity to
Whats been the growth or use of it in the past couple of months . Guest its been around some people think the early 1920s. There was a lovely picture in one of the magazines, not popular science. They had different name for it then but it shows a family huddled around the radio having a visit with a doctor on the other side. The concept is been around for a while, the late 60s when it got going and it has puttered along for the next several decades until a couple of months ago when of course we told everyone in the u. S. They had to stay in their home, and we as clinicians had to take care of them. So blossomed overnight. Host how can it be used today . Guest they can be used in number of ways. The best uses worst of all Mental Health is the number one probably used and the diagnosis is growing need so thats wonderful. A lot of urgent care type things such as sore throats, earaches and actually screening for the coronavirus is quite handily done using this type of technology, so virtua
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The growth or use bit in the past couple of months . Dr. Kvedar it has been around some people think since the 1920s. They had a different name for than that chose a family huddled around the radio having a visit with the doctor on the other side. The concept has been around for a while, the late 1960s is when i got going and it puttered along for the next several decades until a couple of months ago when we told everyone, in the u. S. , that they had to stay in their home. And we as clinicians had to take care of them so i blossomed overnight at the point. Host how can it be used today . Guest it can be used in a number of ways. The best uses, Mental Health is the number one probable youths. Probable use. And a growing need, so that is wonderful. A lot of urgent care type things such as sore throat, ear aches. And screening for the coronavirus is handily done using this technology. Virtual urgent care. And chronic illness management followup visits for patients with diseases like hype
Cspan. Org election. Interactive election vote tallies state by state. Balance of power in congress. Latest video on demand and about the election process go. To cspan. Org election. And this commune on the communicators, its a discussion about a growing form of telecommunications. And that is telemedicine. Joining us are dr. Joseph kavidar of the American Medical Association and Harvard Medical School, along with our guest reporter, Kimberly Leonard of Business Insider. Dr. Kavidar, how long has telemedicine been around . And whats been the growth or use of it in the past couple of months . Dr. Kavidar its been around some people think since the early 1920s. It was a lovely picture in one of the early magazines now poplar science. But it shows a family huddled around the radio having a visit ith the doctors. Really the 1960s is when it puttered along. We told everyone in the u. S. That we had to stay in our home and we as clinicians had to take care of them. How can it be use today .