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[quote=Anonymous]I’m surprised at how much people seem to dislike this.
I’m a doctor and when we are attending on the inpatient service we recently started putting up an out of office message that says something like “I am attending on the inpatient service and my replies may be delayed. Please call X if you have an urgent issue.”

We just started doing it in the past year because our emails have proliferated out of control. I get about 200 emails/day, many of which are reply-all emails where I am included on a list and it is not even relevant to me. A lot of this seems to be driven by the fact that much of our admin team WFH, and just shoot out emails non-stop - and then send another 30’ later to ask if we could reply in a timely fashion. We (the doctors) think the non-stop (often silly) emails are to prove they are working when they are WFH. There were far fewer emails before the pandemic.

Believe me, you’d rather the doctor managing your complex inpatient care does not have to break their train of thought every 5-10’ to pull out their phone and congratulate someone on working at the hospital for 15 years or confirm that they are aware that they have a meeting scheduled with an applicant in 2 weeks.[/quote]

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