Is ‘telemedicine’ the future for rural LGBTQ patients?

Dr. Crystal Beal in their Seattle office. (Still image from a video by Stephen Hegg/KCTS 9)

Dr. Crystal Beal’s office isn’t like most physicians’ offices. There are no patients in a waiting room. In fact, there’s no waiting room at all. That’s because Beal, a family medicine physician in Seattle, practices telemedicine — using a computer-based out of their Capitol Hill apartment. (Beal uses they/them pronouns).