Google Voice

[Sushirolls]

Some one else, who is far smarter than me, said to get a Google Voice number. Can't remember if this was a colleague from residency days, or if it were here on SDN. But get yourself a google voice number. And use that to give to locums or recruiters.

This way your real phone number doesn't keep ringing through out the day, and if you ever get established with a job or your own private practice you can let the Google voice number go... and poof no more will your cell phone get spammed by locums.

Now they are doing the double tap, one to the voicemail, followed up by a quick text message.

I made a historic mistake in residency when walking around at an APA conference and gave out my real cell phone number.

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[calvnandhobbs68]

Yep exactly what I did. My google voice number is on all my CVs too. You can also set it up so that when you get a call, they have to say their name so you can hear it and accept it (like a collect call almost). Deters recruiters from bugging you too much.

I really think everyone should have a google voice number or something similar so you can initiate interactions but easily block people if you want without someone having your real phone number.

 

[wolfvgang22]

Doesn't doximity also have something like this?

 

[calvnandhobbs68]

Doesn't doximity also have something like this?

Doximity dialer just lets you dial out, it doesn't give people a number to call/message back.

 

[romanticscience]

I use the business /HIPAA-compliant google voice. It also comes with auto-attendant and voicemail to text to email features.

I use the Doximity dialer when I make outgoing calls, so that my main line is visible. If people call my main-line they get the automated attendant. I have to use this in conjunction because by using the Google voice app, I can only make it anonymous or have my “direct” Gvoice number show.

 

[Stagg737]

Doesn't doximity also have something like this?

Doximity dialer just lets you dial out, it doesn't give people a number to call/message back.

It does give a number to call back, but you can set the number you are calling from as well as what you’d like to show up on their caller ID.