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Although lots could go wrong, fate smiled on you. Mr. Jones recovered from his
pulmonary embolus and was discharged in reasonably good spirits.
Even his lawyer son turned out to be understanding of what happened and no legal action is planned. One of the important features of this little exercise is to understand that when communicating with the public, especially elderly people, you can't make things too clear. Mr. Jones came back in a pretty bad condition thinking he was following your guidelines to the letter. He got rid of the aspirin all right, and unknowingly went right back to it in the form of Bufferin. Learn anything from this exercise?
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