Sorry. However I thought one of the purposes of GP UK was to allow
members to
pick brains. I didn't realise that asking people to make one very short
message to a *personal* mailbox was such an imposition. The point of my
asking is that there is controversy in my practice as to how private
letters are most safely dealt with.
When patients are asked to collect them, they sometimes forget and then
harangue us for not sending a letter to Mr. Snooks. If we send the
letter direct a different patient then complains that they prefer to
collect it. I thought a simple *voluntary* survey might help our
practice decide what to do and I could then notify the list of the
balance of opinion if anyone else was interested.
I'm sorry it offended you but I'm quite sure that your reply took far
longer to give than either to delete my message and ignore it, as is
your
right, or to send a subject only reply.
I must say that a large amount of mail on GP-UK does not, (*quite
rightly*) have any specific point. I didn't realise that enquiries that
do are so unwelcome. This is why I invited the reply to my personal
mailbox, so that the list was not cluttered by replies and not, as was
your objection, through the general list.
Roger Leary
-----Original Message-----
From: Iain L M Hotchkies <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 02 September 1998 17:37
Subject: Re: Private Patient letter survey
>Roger Leary typed:
>
>> A quick survey.
>
>[snip fairly lengthy instructions regarding a study
> without obvious benefits for the rest of us]
>
>Would you like a cup of tea with that?
>
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