A physician diagnosed with breast cancer communicates with her doctors via text messaging
“‘Can you text me my result?’ I asked my colleague. She looked horrified. As breast radiologists and clinicians working in the screening service our most difficult job is to give bad news. But by text? Suddenly with black humour we could imagine the headlines, ‘Patient receives diagnosis of breast cancer by text message.'”
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