How to gain privacy by avoiding medical portals?

Every time I give an email address to a doctor's office, lab, etc, I get an "open a portal" request on my email. These are a privacy mess because:

1. Anyone hacking into my email can also pull my medical records easily if I have a medical portal on the email. They can reset the password if I do have a portal. Or, if I decide to abandon an email (like an old gmail account), and forget a medical portal …

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