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Old July 21, 2011, 08:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Perikles View Post
Yes, for some reason it sounds very patronizing to me, as though the patient were a small child or somebody not quite a whole person.

(By the way - it's not often I could correct your English - the underlined is interesting )

Anyway, this is not how it comes across with cómo estamos here in Tenerife, when there is clearly an awkwardness about using formal or informal.
Apart from the typo (pacients ), how would you say that? It sounded peculiar to me but I was too tired to bother to try to find a better way.

Thank you!!!
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