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The screen probably displays, among other things, the name of the person who
is the physician. If you are editing a manual, you need to see the screens
that are being described, don't you? I certainly would.
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> Subject: "physician indicative" - what?
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> In the conext of a medical device user manual, consider:
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> The software displays a screen which is physician indicative.
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> This is academia gibberish to me, as in, "I'm baffled." What
> in the world do you think the original author was attempting
> to convey?
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