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That may be going a little far--playing doctor is not the same as playing with a corpse. But Bell's thinking suggests that what young killers lack is not so much a sense of right and wrong as something much more fundamental--a sense of self-control. "Kids endlessly have--and often play-act--fantasies of being great warriors," says Ted Becker of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. "But most kids don't have this inability to control themselves in the real world." The 20 or so U.S. kids under 10 who are arrested for committing homicide each year...
Playing telephone tag with your doctor is one of the most common--and frustrating--rituals of modern medicine. You phone...can't get past the receptionist...leave a message. Your doctor calls back while you're in a meeting...leaves a message. The amount of time wasted on both sides turns everybody sour. But a growing number of physicians are prescribing a dose of e-mail as the antidote...
There are still a few bugs to work out, of course, which is why e-mail has not replaced the pager in most doctors' offices. But enough physicians have added regular stints at the PC to their office routine that at least one professional group has drawn up guidelines. And the American College of Physicians is undertaking a survey this summer to determine just how widespread doctor-patient e-mail has become...
...relationship, patients should follow a few important rules. First, remember that e-mail is not a perfectly private medium. If you're writing from the office, even if you use a password, your employer has the legal right to read your messages. Encryption works only if you and your doctor choose the same program, which can be tough to coordinate. So I recommend that you confine your e-mail messages to routine inquiries: appointment scheduling, follow-up questions after a checkup, requests for a prescription refill or a referral. Stanford University Medical Clinic forbids discussion of a patient...
...mail you send your doctor must be filed in your medical record. Since a lot of e-mail addresses consist of nicknames, be sure your message includes your real name and, if you know it, your patient identification number (or your child's or other family member's ID number, if appropriate). Keep your messages brief, and focus each e-mail on a single issue. If you want a prescription refill, be sure to include the pharmacy's name and telephone number...