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Please don't shoot the messenger here, but your doctor and insurance company are very likely already using the web to exchange information about you. You can either have that in a way that is standards-complaint and vetted by a large group of browser engineers, or they could try to roll their own... which would you prefer?

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Most of the offices use cloud based patient management apps. In my anecdotal experience, as soon as they enter my phone number into one of those, I start getting significantly increased spam call volume. The spike lasts a few weeks.

edit: typo

It seems they don't necessarily have to be using a cloud-based service to sell/leak phone numbers to a third party?

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