Sandeep, Please jump in here. I guess I am not communicating it correctly. Tom, you have thanked me for my help. I feel now you will despise me. But, I simply can't let this go. Either I am missing what you are saying or you just simply are not getting Exchange.
Originally Posted by Tom
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.
Tom, I am totally not understanding your logic. Your patients can send you email via your email you already have or on your Exchange. Somehow, it seems evident that you are under the impression that Exchange email makes it easier for your patients to contact you. Ok, so you don't use email with your patients. Neither do I. If I did, they would have my email address and email me all the time. I don't want my patients to be able to email me for free. How do I do that? I don't email them. It just happens that I don't email them with my email address which uses Exchange. My email address which uses my domain uses Exchange. That email is badams AT riverviewpediatrics.com. But, it would be just as bad if I used my other account badams@roadrunner.com. Patients can send me email on either account.
Tom, at the risk of annoying you and/or pissing you off, are you under the impression that Exchange allows patients to email you more easily? And, if so, why.
