On Monday, October 2, 2017 at 12:44:49 AM UTC-4, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Sun, 1 Oct 2017 19:32:57 -0400, Ed Pawlowski
wrote:

On 10/1/2017 6:45 PM, micky wrote:

alt.home.repair added, because they have opinions about everything!

About email in general, not Eudora.

When you write to someone at his personal email address but one that
ends in a corporate domain, in this case two medical practices with 75
and more than 150 doctors respectively, what are the odds that email to
hir will a) be read as a matter of course by the network administrator
or worse yet, his medical supervisor, b) be scanned by software looking
for key words the management would wants to pursue

Where I worked was smaller than what you describe. i was the general
manger and I set up the email system so yes, I can read every incoming
email if I wanted to. I never really cared or bothered but it can be
done. Corporate email is never private.

I knew I heard that somewhere!


Background: The first doctor fresh out of residency didn't ask me
enough questions and inconvenienced me, worried me, and took 10 or 20
hours of my time doing more research for 2 years, when if she'd only
asked one more question or told me one big side effect of the drug she
prescribed, I would have done things in a different order and saved all
that trouble. I read serious articles on the web about the drug before
starting to take it, but the fact that this side effect is thought to
never go away, even after you stop taking the drug, was not mentioned in
the articles. When I asked her a year later, she knew about that
though, but she tried to palm the question off on the dentist.

I'm annoyed and I want to tell her so she doesn't make the same mistake
again (though I suspect my GP who's in the same practice already told
her) but once warned, I doubt she'll ever do it again and I don't want
to get her in trouble with her practice.

Either tell her face to face

Too much trouble for both her and me. I'd have to go there and she'd
have to take time, and at the same time. Plus there are 3 of them.


You sure can turn a simple thing into a big deal. You have a suggestion
for improvement. It's work related. Just send it to her email at work.
The chances that the employer is sitting there reading individual
emails is small. And it's work related, you claim she made a mistake
that you want to prevent happening again in the future. Most people
would probably send that to the employer to begin with, especially if it's
a medical related thing.