As a patient, I have my drs email and private mobile phone number, and he's never complained about my use of them... Even encouraged me to email peer reviewed articles to him so he can look at them and we can discuss them, and didn't even mind the 6am text conversation about whether I was well enough to go into work that day (a fitness t…
As a patient, I have my drs email and private mobile phone number, and he's never complained about my use of them... Even encouraged me to email peer reviewed articles to him so he can look at them and we can discuss them, and didn't even mind the 6am text conversation about whether I was well enough to go into work that day (a fitness to practice issue)... But I'm also very mindful about respecting boundaries.
But I've seen patients panic over iron deficiency pathology results when they just had the path read out, (poikylocytosis - does that mean I'm gonna die?) and can imagine open access could be a double edged sword.
As a patient, I have my drs email and private mobile phone number, and he's never complained about my use of them... Even encouraged me to email peer reviewed articles to him so he can look at them and we can discuss them, and didn't even mind the 6am text conversation about whether I was well enough to go into work that day (a fitness to practice issue)... But I'm also very mindful about respecting boundaries.
But I've seen patients panic over iron deficiency pathology results when they just had the path read out, (poikylocytosis - does that mean I'm gonna die?) and can imagine open access could be a double edged sword.