I am curious (and a little bit dismayed) at the characterization of a clinician's caution as "Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt." I am ALL in favor of secure communications, but I am mindful of the reason for that concern; email is incredibly INSECURE, and the average healthcare consumer (to say nothing of the practitioner) is not aware of how many ways it can go wrong. I would have my doctor err on the side of caution, and given the potential penalties for HIPAA violations, I'm sure the doctor is even more convinced.
By way of analogy, I may not care if the person treating the mole on my neck has all the years of training of an MD, but that's because I don't have any idea of the risks. The doctor has the training to have an idea of what can happen if it is treated as non-cancerous, how I may react to the course of treatment, survivability, likely recovery time, etc. In the same way, the doctor may not know all the ways an email can escape out into the wild and all the ways that information can harm me, my employment, my relationships, or my finances. But he DOES know how much it can cost him if he causes it!
Calling this FUD is itself very FUD'ish. Until you know how build your own nuclear power plant, don't play with the uranium.
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