Re:Brazilian doctors use WhatsApp to talk to patients
by antirez on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @10:55AM
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Common in Italy too. I find it very useful because you can send doctors exams, images, and so forth without interrupting like with a call. But is a lot more real time and personal than emails.
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Re:Brazilian doctors use WhatsApp to talk to patients
by MichaelGG on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @11:39AM
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Don't you have any issues with sending your detailed medical information to Facebook?
Signal, or even Telegram (despite it's stupid crypto, the E2E stuff _should_ work if verified right, and it's a marginally better client at the moment) should suffice without sacrificing privacy.
Re:Brazilian doctors use WhatsApp to talk to patients
by antirez on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @12:20PM
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I totally understand the privacy implications, but I'm a person that tends to extern all its personal facts, so I'm kinda "public" by default, so no worry about sending what I talk about with even with strangers.
Re:Brazilian doctors use WhatsApp to talk to patients
by tdb7893 on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @11:59AM
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Privacy is obviously good but when I ask myself what specifically bad has happened to me because Facebook and Google know a bunch of random information about me I'm at a loss. Until the problem of privacy is tangible to most people it will always be an uphill battle
Re:Brazilian doctors use WhatsApp to talk to patients
by marcosdumay on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @01:43PM
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Depends on the actual information, doesn't it?