Awe for Technology
II - "Tele-Medicine" in 2018
This is the second piece in the series "Awe for Technology".
My mother, who is approaching 80 years of her time on planet Earth, lives independently from her children. (An interesting article about Aging In Place Has Its Benefits, Risks By Anthonia Akitunde is LINKED HERE).
Recently, she developed rashes. She could not identify the source of her problem - whether it was from eating something that did not harmonize with her gut or from her coming in contact with something that did not agree with her skin. She has a slew of Western medicines courtesy of her son-in-law, a doctor who had migrated to Australia. (Why do people migrate? That's another musing for another day). My mother is not a great fan of alternative medicines 另 类医疗 lìng lèi yī liáo nor a firm believer in traditional Chinese Medicine 中医 zhōng yī). However, she is not well versed with the battery of pills she had been armed with. So, she "face-timed" (video called) her daughter using a Western tablet (not the pill but the Apple computer 电 脑 diàn nǎo).
During the online consultation, she used the camera to show her doctor / son-in-law the part of her skin that was inflamed (which itched her to no end). And he advised her to take some antihistamine (a drug used to prevent allergies and cold). Of course, she could not identify the medicine and so, she laid out the battalion of drugs on the table and by the grace of technology (tele-medicine) , identified and dispensed the antihistamine with the help of her daughter and son-in-law.
And by the grace of God (to her, and chemistry 化 学 huàxué to me) the itches were kept at bay.
The "Apple" (and the Antihistamine) on that day had kept the physical physician away.
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