A patient believed to have suffered a stroke typically gets transported to the nearest emergency room for tests to determine the best course of action.

Telemedicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine enabled one patient to have her stroke diagnosed and a treatment plan set up without ever stepping foot in a hospital.

Sharon Graves scheduled a telehealth appointment with Greengold, her longtime practitioner, a day after twice feeling tingling in her arm and numbness in her mouth.

Graves, a nurse for almost 40 years, first experienced the symptoms in the morning getting ready to go to her job as director of a hospital intensive care unit.

She took her own blood pressure (“a little high but not anything outrageous”), sat down for a few minutes as the feelings dissipated, then went to work, chalking up the incident to stress.

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