Another fail showed how far have the governmental institutes stood behind from the modern people's way of thinking.
Patients shun 'email-your-GP' pilots as doubts grow over DH pledge for 24/7 online access (Pulse): The Government's controversial vision of 24/7 online access to GPs has been dealt a severe blow with the news only 89 patients from a potential total of at least 30,000 have agreed to take part in pilots of its Communicator system.
Dr Robert Koefman, a GP in Bracknell, Berkshire, was sceptical: ‘I'm on call today and I've done 12 phone calls already. You want to give me another 25 emails? It's just not workable.'
I feel like e-technologies have already crossed a border of convenience and start killing rational minds from inside. It's incredible how people abuse opportunity of email communication these days, and now they start hooking us up by legal requirements to be responsive 24/7. To add to that, 'good old' 3-day response rule has become a total anachronism on the American continent. You don't reply within 8 hours - you lose your opportunity, eventually you lose your job. That's like a drug with socially-imposed addiction.
ReplyDelete8 hours? Sounds like a love song! From my experience of sending the requests to US/EU, Americans have shown shorter feedback time, but it was never been as short as 8 hrs... maybe they understand that I can't make them jobless?
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