I agree with Peter and John. Personally I believe practicing medicine by email is ridiculous, dangerous and just another way insurance companies and lawyers can make our lives miserable and undervalued. I specifically tell patients when they ask that I do not respond to clinically relevant emails so they should not send them. Put email medicine together with mid-level "practitioners" and soon we physicians will be sitting in our offices (or our homes because we no longer can afford an office) on our butts, without any patients on the schedule, trying to figure out how we got in this predicament.

Leslie

Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC

"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "