A remote consultation with physicians or other health care professionals is called

A. social media.
B. patient monitoring.
C. open access.
D. telemedicine.
E. closed-circuit television.


D. telemedicine.

Telemedicine refers to remote consultations with physicians or other health care professionals. Social media began as social networking, but is also now being used with health care. Patient monitoring may be done by closed-circuit television as a form of telemedicine.

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