There’s an interesting passage in one of Robert A. Heinlien’s later novels where there’s a character wo’s a doctor in the early 20th century. He predicts that everyone having a phone in their home would evebtually lead to the end of the house call. If you have to send someone by foot or horseback to fetch the doctor, he says, you’ll only do so in dire emergencies. If you can just pick up the phone and ask the doctor to come by for a case of the sniffles, pretty soon it will become unsupportable. And so, here we are.
There’s an interesting passage in one of Robert A. Heinlien’s later novels where there’s a character wo’s a doctor in the early 20th century. He predicts that everyone having a phone in their home would evebtually lead to the end of the house call. If you have to send someone by foot or horseback to fetch the doctor, he says, you’ll only do so in dire emergencies. If you can just pick up the phone and ask the doctor to come by for a case of the sniffles, pretty soon it will become unsupportable. And so, here we are.