E-mail Could Enhance Doctor-Patient Relationship

病人和医生之间的传统关系是本文所说的normal clinie basedconsultation。然而,这种沿袭了许多年的关系正在被打破！ E-mail,正在成为病人和医生之间联系的重要桥梁。 本文有几个重要信息: …nearly 40％ of American patients say they have used e-mail to contact ahealth professional(专家)in the past. …by the year 2000 nearly every library will offer(Internet and E-mail)services in the United States,allowing even low-income patients some means ofe-mail access. Web experts now estimate more than 10,000 health-oriented websites (站点)already exist. 这两个信息让我们感到:美国在这方面又领先世界一步！ 值得一提的是,病人有通过e-mail和医生联系的积极性,而医生却缺乏这方面的积极性。原因是: …for fear of increasing workload(工作量)and uncertainty about paymentror the time involved. 当然,病人方面也并非100％地欢迎这个新生事物: …patients may worry that sensitive medical information might be read byothers.然而,以上这些“阻力”终将被克服！