The NHS in Britain is considering a new policy that could see patients contact their GPs through email

Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has already made his intentions clear that he wants the GPs to have a greater say on how the majority of the NHS budget is spent. The reason given by Lansley is that GPs are in a greater contact with their patients and understand their needs better than the policy makers who hardly check on any patients.
However if such a procedure is pushed through, then not only will the GPs lose touch with their patients, they are likely to miss out on small difference between the actual symptoms and that what is written in the email which could prove to be the difference between two separate diseases.
Source-Medindia