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Medical consultation, whether tele (virtual) or face-to-face, is defined as a patient or a relative of the patient voluntarily seeking out a physician to get professional ADVICES on certain medical concerns.
The physician, as a matter of basic routine, interviews and does physical examination on the patient to get to a clinical diagnosis. If the patient has previous medical records, these are reviewed with the interview and physical examination data to get to a clinical diagnosis.
After the clinical diagnosis, the physician explains his clinical diagnosis to the patient or relative and then advises on the subsequent steps in the management. The advices on subsequent steps of management may include medications, diagnostic and treatment procedures, or just a watch and wait or monitoring approach.
A medical consultation strictly speaking ends on the physician giving advices. It does not include prescription of medications and performance of diagnostic and treatment procedures on the patient. However, prescription of medications and request for diagnostic procedures can be included in a medical consultation usually with no additional or extra service charges to the patients.
Performance of diagnostic and treatment procedures is entirely separate from medical consultation and carries additional service charges to the patients.
Medical consultation - a rendering of medical advice or professional opinion
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