Good Morning America Health reported on how doctors are bringing back the house call "virtually " on Skype.

Host Tanya Rivero brought New York plastic surgeon Spero Theodorou and one of his patients into the GMA studio physically while Dr. Loren Olson, a child psychiatrist from Iowa "Skype-d" in.

Dr. Theodorou said his young patients "practically live on the internet." And they're time crunched.

So he said it was natural to offer initial educational and screening consultations over the net.

One of his liposuction patients said she uses Skype everyday for teleconferencing so it was easy for her to meet with the doctor initially over Skype. She said this saved her a trip to the MD office and spared her from the waiting room,

Dr. Loren Olson, about whom I blogged last month, told how he uses Skype to keep up with his grandchildren in Washington State and Ohio.

From there, he brought Skype into his practice. He said Skype comes in handy for routine follow-up visits and for consultations in distant areas where he is working with a team. He told me Skype saved him "windshield time"--time driving he could be using to treat patients.

He said Skype video doesn't have the intimacy of a face-to-face visit. But he said, "The question is (between) this visit (on Skype) vs. no visit."

He said after patients are connected for a time over Skype video the "screen melts away" so the visit becomes more intimate.