
Back to the doctor's office? Here's what's next for telehealth after the pandemic
CNN
For millions of people, pandemic-era telehealth flexibilities have made health care much more accessible. But those flexibilities are set to expire 151 days after the Covid-19 public health emergency ends.
That's what brought Gary Poteat into the doctor's office. But several appointments and a biopsy later, Poteat discovered that he had malignant kidney cells in his jaw, the result of stage IV kidney cancer -- something that only 14% of people survive with in the first five years of diagnosis.
Fifteen years after a diagnosis that felt like a death sentence, Poteat continues to beat those odds. However, that means he is a complicated patient requiring specialized care that can require him to travel thousands of miles from his home in Central Ohio.













