From: Julian Bradley <[log in to unmask]>
>We withold our number both at home and at our surgery. At home this is
partly
>to preserve our own privacy, but at the surgery this is to preserve patient
>confidentiality. If we call a house with 2+ residents we do not identify
>ourselves until we've reached our patient. We were getting calls back when
>CLI was introduced and there had been no reply with husbands / wives
wanting
>to know why we were contacting the house (to speak to their partner).
A very good point and one the EU Harmonisation and Telecomms people may not
have fully considered.
>ACR even with safeguards is dangerous because by default if only doctor
lines
>can get through with the number witheld the implication becomes clear.
It will not be put in with this exception, apart from anything else there
doesn't seem to be any technical solution to do this, and if there was the
double-glazing spammers would get to use it.
>Hope it won't happen in the UK.
It will. Prepare.
>Dr. J. Bradley, The Stonedean Practice,
>Telephone 01908 261155, Fax 01908 265818
Yes, well ^^^^
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