In March 2022, we celebrated Women’s Month and the Department of Foreign Affairs invited me to elucidate common eye issues faced by women. I was so honored to be invited as a guest speaker, especially speaking to the employees in this government agency who helps Filipinos experienced an equally amazing world outside the Philippines.

An Online Consultation with you eye doctor can help you because it is

• Fast

• Easy

• Accessible

• Affordable

• Available

• No hassle, No worries

It is 9PM. Something physical and health related is bothering you. You need to see a doctor. Gabi na. Is there a doctor I can talk to? Meron pa kaya na open clinic? How about in the emergency? What do you do? If only there is online consultation available.

The Quiet Night

You hear everything when the atmosphere is quiet, when the busyness of the day settles. You listen to your chief complaints, you feel your aches, and you hear your questions.

An Eye Symptom in the Quiet Night

What are the thoughts that are bothering you?

What is Happening?

Why I cannot see?

Why my head hurts and I cannot see?

Why my head hurts?

What is your wish?

An Online Consultation with An Eye  Doctor

You just need someone to talk to. Someone who will understand you. A human who will listen to your aches and pains. IS there an Online doctor?

Convenience

There are days when looking for onsite clinic is unavailable. Good thing that digital technology helps bring important services at the touch of your phones, inside the safety and comfort of your homes.

Prevention is Better

A lot of disease can be easily treated when it is easy, when it is only beginning, especially if it is the eye. I can attest to that.

Consultation Fees

An online consultation usually costs the same as a face to face consultation. I always tell my patient, a face to face clinic examination is always better but given the situation of some patients, online consult is better than no consult at all.

NowServing app

No Worries. There are eye doctors who understand your needs, who know exactly how to talk you. Now Serving is an app that helps connects patients to doctors. This wonderful technology has been there quite some time, but became popular and rapidly developed during the pandemic. https://seriousmd.com/doc/izza-italia

Ask, Seek, Knock

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened” Matthew 7:7-12

Online Booking, Laboratories, Prescriptions, Medical Certificates

I have been with SeriousMD since 2021, during the height of pandemic. I can attest to the software integrity of this application. What I like best is it’s patient data safety. I also find it very important to have that electronic medical record that helps us manage patient’s lab requests, prescription, and medical certificate. This helps us doctors move our entire clinic online.

In Just a Few Clicks

I received that online booking at 9PM. I have finished my tasks for the day, and not yet sleepy.

I messaged the patient if she is okay to proceed with the online consultation, or if she wants to reschedule in the morning.

We proceeded with the consultation, the workups and the prescription.

I gave my advise to proceed with a face to face consultation if she is not relieved or if her symptoms are getting worse.

No worries for the meantime

It is our actions that gives a sense of control again, decreasing our worries for our days and nights.

In Ophthalmology, we have categories, based on the symptoms and diagnosis, on the urgency to see an eye doctor- absolute, urgent and elective.