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While I do understand this reasoning somewhat I don't know why its only limited to hospitals and doctors. I can imagine thousands of situations where this abusi
by drugstorecowboy 5y ago
While I do understand this reasoning somewhat I don't know why its only limited to hospitals and doctors. I can imagine thousands of situations where this abusive partner would have a problem with an incoming number hospital or not. I'm not sure its a great idea to structure our communications around hypothetical abusive people, a call directly to the number that is provided from the organization you provided it to is private enough.
- mschuster91 5y ago> I'm not sure its a great idea to structure our communications around hypothetical abusive people Domestic violence is far from hypothetical [1], it is the sad reality we live in. Medicine in particular has a responsibility by the Hippocratic Oath to avoid causing harm, and the laws (e.g. HIPAA) reflect that responsibility. [1] https://www.socialsolutions.com/blog/domestic-violence-statistics/ https://www.socialsolutions.com/blog/domestic-violence-stati...
- drugstorecowboy 5y agoSo, women are abused sometimes therefore doctor's must mask their numbers due to the Hippocratic Oath and HIPAA? Do the doctor's have to disguise their voices as well? Maybe they should talk in code. I won't pretend to be an expert on HIPAA but I very strongly doubt that calling from random numbers is part of it. Wouldn't the random calls look suspicious to the abuser in this circumstance? IMHO something like this would cause more abuse than just I dunno.. lying about why the doctor's office called.
- mschuster91 5y ago> Wouldn't the random calls look suspicious to the abuser in this circumstance? No, precisely because random calls from suppressed numbers are so common for spam.