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At 13:52 29/10/96, Pete Mitchell is rumored to have typed: > [from e-Med News] Primary care doctors in most European countries use > the Internet very little, according to a survey performed by Isis > Research early this year. It is most popular in Britain where 10% of > GPs have a personal Internet account. Uptake is likely to grow > rapidly in both the UK and Germany, but in France, Italy and Spain it > will be much slower because of the low usage of computers in other > aspects of practice, according to Isis's Peter Winters. > > Fifty GPs in each of five countries were sampled for the research. > One German, three Italian and five British doctors had Internet > connections _ none of the French or Spanish doctors had. The results > are partly explained by the existence of GP computers for other > purposes. About 80% of British and German doctors use computers for > generating prescriptions, while only 36% of Italian doctors, 20% of > French and 6% of Spanish doctors do. The survey is being repeated > this month: contact Mr Winters on (+44) 181 788 8819 > or [log in to unmask] > > [ends] Fifty people in each country, this is a very little sample! We are 120000 liberal doctors, I don't know how much colleagues are working in the hospitals. In France, use of Internet among doctors is growing each month. Low usage of computers (20 % of French doctors) is a reality and often only for accounting or text writing... ___Patrick Atlas, MD____________tel: +33 03 83 28 60 61__________________ ___general practitioner_________e-mail: [log in to unmask] ___35, rue du Grand Verger______e-mail: [log in to unmask] ___54000 NANCY, France__________FirstClass SINAPSE: +33 03 87 31 95 95___ ___homepage: http://myweb.worldnet.fr/~amgit54/atlas/homepage.html_______ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%