Quote-- I NEVER USE ALL CAPS, BUT I HAVE TO HERE. PLEASE TELL ME YOU HAVE EMAIL ON YOUR COMPUTER!! Are you saying you do not have email? I can't believe that.
IF SO I DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW YOU WOULD BE AT ANY MORE RISK FROM YOUR PATIENTS' EMAILS WITH EXCHANGE THAN FROM YOUR EMAIL.
Please answer this. It is driving me crazy! Do you have email on your computer? [/quote]
Bert--
Of course I have email on my computer, and I use it all the time.
What I said was, I don't use email with patients. Don't use it clinically. I don't want them sending me reams (funny we still use that word in our "paperless" world) of observations about their feelings and chest pains and bowel disruptions. I don't want them sending me the latest findings as reported on the Internet, with instructions for lab tests and new imaging tests I am supposed to arrange for them.
I don't send them lab results by email -- I would surely get immediate responses, and questions about the results, and demands for explanation and further "appropriate" testing.
All that for free.
That's what I don't do.
When someone figures out how to charge for email -- maybe PayPal should investigate this!, or when the Government really gets behind the electronic revolution they are pushing, and allows for a business model that actually includes it, then maybe I will spend even more time looking at the screen.
