Quote: I think you should have little trouble finding web sites that already do what you're proposing - give medical consultations - and find employment there? You could be available by e-mail throughout the day, no?
Well, actually, I've only found a couple of sites (ecureme.com and askadoctor.com). I will contact them (actually I contacted a similar site a couple years ago but they weren't hiring). Unfortunately, many such sites are prescription mills - dispensing prescriptions for Viagra and the like over the internet - and the AMA and governmental agencies have been on the warpath against internet prescribing, so their future is pretty muddy.
A site like that should have the advantage of their own umbrella malpractice coverage, though, which would be good. I've thought of setting up my own site as a medical "coach", much likea life coach, but I do still have concerns about malpractice coverage there. Coaching associations now offer liability policies, but I suspect I would need more coverage, especially if anything I say is construed as medical advice or practicing medicine. I suppose I need to talk to the insurers directly to find out what coverage they would recommend and what it would cost.
I've looked and really can't find any physicians doing quite the same thing online. There is one guy who is basically a life coach for other physicians.And some physicians with bricks and mortar practices also do online consultations, but I haven't yet found anyone doing what I envision.
