  We report a significant improvement of an approximate method of including
electron Coulomb distortion in electron induced reactions at momentum transfers
greater than the inverse of the size of the target nucleus. In particular, we
have found a new parametrization for the elastic electron scattering phase
shifts that works well at all electron energies greater than 300 $MeV$. As an
illustration, we apply the improved approximation to the $(e,e'p)$ reaction
from medium and heavy nuclei. We use a relativistic ``single particle'' model
for $(e,e'p)$ as as applied to $^{208}Pb(e,e'p)$ and to recently measured data
at CEBAF on $^{16}O(e,e'p)$ to investigate Coulomb distortion effects while
examining the physics of the reaction.
