In a small, darkened room filled with computer screens and telephone switchboards, Dr. Robert Baron listens intently as a 33-year-old man's medical symptoms are described. The man, who had briefly passed out, is in severe pain from his kidney area and is getting oxygen. The doctor sits across the hall from the emergency room at the Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, Ariz., but his patient is a little farther away: on an airplane 30,000 ft. over the Middle East. Yet within minutes, Baron has diagnosed a kidney stone, suggested preliminary treatment and arranged for medical personnel to meet the...
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