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Email Love Letter

 

The Email Love Letter

As I watched an old Movie, the Love Letter starring Tom Selleck, I watched a letter intended for a love of many years fly through the air and land on a window sill. An unintended recipient read it and became interested in the head book store owner who did not write the letter. He folded it and placed it in a book. When the owner read the letter, she felt amorous towards Tom Selleck who did not write the letter. As other readers read the letter, it changed their lives while enjoying the mysterious “love letter.” However, hardly anyone writes letters any more. More people write emails than postal service letters. Hallmark wants customers to send more cards and letters according to www.hallmark.com.

A modern “Love Letter” would be email, Sent by mistake to various people at different stages in their lives, it will enliven the days as they open the email love letter and read it. It will remain on their computers as evidence of undying love. Email love letters replaced letters according to www.news.znet. Just as a letter can be savored and reread, the email message can be reopened and reread without the risk of dropping it or damaging it.

I find many reasons to use email in place of Postal Service email. The messages arrive sooner, and the reply rate is high if the recipient knows the sender. When a physician wants to send lab data to a patient, the physician can send it as an attachment or copy it onto the body of email, according to www.ama.org. A record of the transmission and reply appears. The patient can click on it to read the results as many times as needed. Doctors read Medical Letters to improve patient care.

For the past 38 years I have read printed Medical Letters which address a variety of topics and critical evaluations of medications. Now I can read archived Medical Letters electronically at www.medical letter.org for the period of 10 years. It saves space and increases ease of retrieval. Email has replaced snail mail.

August 28, 2008 - Posted by diane10 | Uncategorized | | 1 Comment

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  1. I was reading your comment, I enjoyed it btw, and was wondering if you as a doctor send medical records through email? Wouldn’t that be dangerous because email and computers are hacked everyday?

    Comment by HappyHillbilly | September 5, 2008 | Reply


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