Drowning in patient emails, doctors start charging for their replies

washingtonpost.com

3 pointsbookofjoe3 comments

Is emailing doctors really a thing?

Email is completely unencrypted, like a postcard. Why would anyone send sensitive and highly intimate personal medical details over a postcard-like medium?

90%+ of all email traffic in encrypted, and I'd bet that goes up with consumer-facing providers like Gmail: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safer-email/overview?h...

https://archive.ph/SVdZG

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