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Subject:Re: How can I phrase this? From:Jim Jones <han4yu3 -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> Date:Mon, 1 Jul 2013 18:58:49 -0500
Maybe but she did mention the critical need to have the two parties
notified about what is, basically, one and the same issue.
Probably, the wordings would need to be different for each.
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
> The document Charlotte asked about is going to the tech. There would be a
> different document going to the patient. So there is not a need for one
> warning that informs both at the same time, which would be a bad idea
> anyway because of the potential for confusion.
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
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> On 7/1/2013 4:08 PM, Jim Jones wrote:
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>> Be that as it may, ...task is to find a more emphatic way of instructing
>> the... is good but I would phrase the task in this fashion: Charlotte's
>> task is to develop a sure-cut, foolproof method that directly and
>> unambiguously communicates a certain important warning to two different
>> parties [the end-user and the specialist] at once.
>>
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