Doctors are now chatting up their patients
(World News Science)

SACREMENTO: Dr Anna Nguyen spoke with none of the five patients she treated on a recent weekday morning. She didn´t even leave her dining room. The emergency physician nevertheless helped a pregnant Ohio woman handle hip pain, examined a Michigan man´s sore throat and texted a mom whose son became sick during a family trip to Mexico. Welcome to the latest wrinkle in health care convenience: the chat diagnosis. Nguyen´s company, CirrusMD, can connect patients with a doctor...