Since the late nineteenth century patients have become accustomed to visiting hospitals or the general practitioner when they are in need of care. For chronic patients these visits have become part and parcel of their life; because there is no cure for their diseases, they depend on regular consultations with healthcare professionals to adjust medical therapy to the progress of their illness.
Our proximity to or distance from others and from places has meaning for us.
(Malone, 2003, p. 2317)
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Oudshoorn, N. (2011). How Places Matter in Healthcare: Physical and Digital Proximity. In: Telecare Technologies and the Transformation of Healthcare. Health, Technology and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230348967_6
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