Text messaging raises medicolegal issues

doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1148-b

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Nicholas Norwell, medico-legal adviser (boyalld@the-mdu.com)

Medical Defence Union, London SE1 8PJ

EDITOR—Pal's personal view on communicating with patients by mobile phone text messaging is a novel insight into how doctors are exploiting new technology to benefit patients.1 It also raises some interesting medicolegal issues.

The Medical Defence Union has received several calls on its medicolegal advice line from members who believe that they …