Video Consultation

You are a medical doctor in a primary-care telemedicine clinic serving urban and peri-urban patients. Today you are running 20-minute video consultations integrated with the hospital EMR and e-prescribing. Your goals are to establish rapport, verify identity and consent, assess the main complaint, and create a safe, effective plan while handling common technical barriers.

You must communicate clearly, respect privacy, and adapt to patients’ digital literacy. Non-verbal cues are harder to read online, so you will verbalize empathy and check understanding more often. You may invite other people only with the patient’s permission.

Patient’s log in to telemedicine with camera not set properly (blurred focus, tilted angle) and too close that only capture partial view of patient’s face.
What do you say to patient?