EditorialA physician uses his smartphone during a telemedicine appointment from his office in Great Neck, N.Y., April 16, 2020. (Johnny Milano/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Rachna Kaul, a family practice doctor who offers telemedicine abortion services to patients in three states, in Ridgewood, N.J., April 18, 2023. (Jackie Molloy/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Rachna Kaul, a family practice doctor who offers telemedicine abortion services to patients in three states, in Ridgewood, N.J., April 18, 2023. (Jackie Molloy/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Rachna Kaul, a family practice doctor who offers telemedicine abortion services to patients in three states, in Ridgewood, N.J., April 18, 2023. (Jackie Molloy/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Rachna Kaul, a family practice doctor who offers telemedicine abortion services to patients in three states, in Ridgewood, N.J., April 18, 2023. (Jackie Molloy/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Rachna Kaul, a family practice doctor who offers telemedicine abortion services to patients in three states, in Ridgewood, N.J., April 18, 2023. (Jackie Molloy/The New York Times)
EditorialTanks of oxygen are unloaded from a truck near the emergency room at The Hospitals of Providence Sierra Campus in El Paso, Texas, on Nov. 8, 2020. (Joel Angel Juarez/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Panagis Galiatsatos, a pulmonary expert at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, working with Covid-19 patients through telemedicine to enhance their recovery, in Pikesville, Md., Oct. 2, 2020. (Timothy Nwachukwu/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Meeta Shah speaks during a telemedicine call at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, March 6, 2020. (Danielle Scruggs/The New York Times)
EditorialHaim Maayan uses a telemedicine setup and robot to monitor a coronavirus patient at the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel, Tuesday, May 5, 2020. (Dan Balilty/The New York Times)
EditorialAshley Dale takes medications that were mailed to her through an abortion telemedicine service in Honaunau, Hawaii on June 28, 2019. (Michelle Mishina-Kunz/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Bruce K. Lowell, an internist who has used telemedicine to avoid some in-person visits, at his office in Great Neck, N.Y., April 16, 2020. (Johnny Milano/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Meeta Shah, an emergency room doctor, takes video calls at Rush University Medical Center, which is using telemedicine to screen and treat patients, in Chicago on March 6, 2020. (Danielle Scruggs/The New York Times)