Remember back in May when we told you about Dr. Michael Fratkin and his remote palliative care startup, Resolution Care? Word seems to be getting around.
Fratkin and Resolution Care were featured on “PBS NewsHour” last week in a substantial 7-minute “Breakthroughs” segment.
“This is where I would like to die when I die, in my own bed, in my own home,” said 73-year-old Kristi Goechel cancer patient in rural Northern California. She didn’t want to spend the rest of her days hospitalized, like her late husband did.
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“I don’t want to live the rest of my life like that. If I have three months, six months, I don’t care. I want quality of life with my family,” Goechel told PBS special correspondent Joanne Elgart.
Tired of covering a service area 100 miles north and south and and 60-80 miles inland from his Eureka, Calif., home to see see patients, Fratkin set up his telemedicine business. “By adding the videoconferencing technology, we can travel that distance instantaneously,” Fratkin said. “And as long as our relationships are solid and we have delivered an environment of trust in working with these folks, it works beautifully well.”
Telemedicine also lets Fratkin bring in specialists from urban centers. The PBS segment demonstrated a three-way consultation with Fratkin, another terminal cancer patient in Fortuna, Calif., and an oncologist at UC-San Francisco.
While Fortuna is just 17 miles from Eureka, the patient, Rich Schlesiger, 44, had been driving 10-hour round trips to see Dr. Jennifer Clarke in San Francisco. After Schlesiger decided to stop chemotherapy, telemedicine became a viable option. It was the first time Clarke had ever tried a video consultation, and she came away impressed.
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