Sometimes face to face is much needed to get a better idea of what is going on with a patient. Usually there are obvious reasons to bring a patient in for a face to face consultation: young children, chest pain, abdominal pain, shortness of breath and more. However the hard part of this age of remote consulting is deciding on when someone needs to come down. It could be the ambiguous history or the story that doesn't quite make sense - sometimes it's better to bring them down. However there is the constant thought of not creating too much covid-19 risk in your practice or putting too much pressure on your clinic. One lady called in complaining of a weird smell from her armpits, she was smelling onions there. It wasn't just her though, her husband had also been smelling it. It was causing understandable anxiety and also meant they had to sleep in separate bedrooms, which was causing issues in their relationship. She had tried all manner of body washes and deodorants but t...
