Probably?? Please don't do this.
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 1:46 PM, William_J_G Overington <[email protected]> wrote: > [Probably off-topic] Mobile telephone numbers and next of kin contact./ > > This is probably off-topic but in view of the fact that there may well be > people on this list who are working in telecommunications companies and/or > are on appropriate standards committees or have contacts who are, perhaps > readers will not mind. > > I have identified a problem that could perhaps be solved, or maybe just > greatly reduced, with an addition to the documentation that accompanies a > new mobile telephone, perhaps with wording on an industry standard basis > next to where the telephone number of the device is stated. > > Here is the problem. > > A person H has as next of kin a person J, who lives at a different address. > > J has provided H with his or her mobile telephone number and H has recorded > the number into his or her own medical record. > > One day, for whatever reason, J changes his or her mobile telephone and has > a new number. > > J is busy and it just does not occur to J to inform H of the changed number. > > Time passes. > > One day, H is taken ill and medical staff try to contact J using the mobile > telephone number that is in the medical record of H. > > The medical staff cannot contact J and maybe the call reaches someone else > from another family if enough time has passed and J's old number has been > reassigned from the list of discontinued-use numbers. > > So, it could help if every new mobile telephone were to carry a printed > message next to where the telephone number of the device is stated, such as > the following. > > If you are the next of kin of someone, please remember to inform him or her > of this new telephone number and mention that he or she needs to have it > added into his or her medical record. > > Lots of people might make such a notification anyway, but some people may > not and there seems no way to know how big is the problem of out-dated > contact information in medical records around the world. > > William Overington > > 21 February 2015 > > > _______________________________________________ > Unicode mailing list > [email protected] > http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode > _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list [email protected] http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
