{"id":7165,"date":"2013-07-21T16:58:56","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T23:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=7165"},"modified":"2013-07-21T17:33:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T00:33:18","slug":"will-this-be-on-the-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2013\/07\/21\/will-this-be-on-the-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Will This be on the Test?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Walgreen-Sign\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

(k) for purposes of disease management programs and services, information may be disclosed to any entity contracting with a health care service plan or the health care service plan’s contractors to monitor or administer care of enrollees for a covered benefit, provided that the disease management services and care are authorized by a treating physician or to any disease management organization that complies fully with the physician authorization requirements, provided that the health care service plan or its contractor provides or had provided a description of the disease management services to treating physician or to the health care service plan’s or contractor’s network of physician.
\n[The added “sticker” covering parts of (a), (b), and (c) was apparently the work of some very tall child.]
\n<\/span><\/h6>\n

Here’s one for our amusement. And light reading. Being something of a purveyor of such (light reading) I’m interested in the craft. And one thing we’re taught in the craft is, unless there’s reason otherwise, keep your sentences short.<\/p>\n

Especially if you want readers to stay with you.<\/p>\n

You can imagine my amusement when, as Anne was getting a prescription filled at a local pharmacy, my eyes fell on a posting of \u201cimportant information.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the poster was fairly high up and the print very small, I ventured to read just the last paragraph, labeled \u201ck.\u201d<\/p>\n

I confess that I quickly began to lose track of what it was talking about. Was it my general attention deficit disorder<\/em>, or just too much information to take in without a breath?<\/p>\n

Then I realized: IT WAS ALL ONE SENTENCE! Who could follow it?<\/p>\n

I glanced at the “paragraph” just above and noted that it ended with a semi-colon. So it too was part of the same sentence! Same with the one above that . . . and the one above that . . . all the way to the top.<\/p>\n

Incredibly, every one of those eleven lettered “bullet points” of packed-in information was part of one long “cover all the bases till the end of the world” thought!<\/p>\n

I’ve heard of run-on sentences; but this one could be in the Olympics.<\/p>\n

I looked again at the title:<\/p>\n

NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES . . .
\nPLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY.<\/h2>\n

As I said, it was placed high up, the type was about 8 point, and anybody who would really take the time to read it “carefully” would probably still be there at closing time. Or subject to arrest for loitering.<\/p>\n

I did notice that the\u00a0rack for\u00a0reading glasses was close by, so at least someone was thinking.<\/p>\n

But I had to wonder, who is writing these things? Who approved this one? Who thought they were meeting some societal need in producing it? Where did they go to school? How much do they make per hour? Does it all somehow come into the cost of prescriptions?<\/p>\n

For your information (and possible usefulness?) I’ve transcribed that final fragment at left . . . one-eleventh of the sentence.\u00a0(Somebody should be sentenced!)<\/p>\n

But don’t worry, this won’t be on the test.<\/p>\n

Then again, who knows?<\/p>\n

Maybe I’d better read it again.<\/p>\n

“Carefully.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever come across these things that are “very important” to know and then presented in a way that’s impossible to take in? Will it be on the test? The IQ test?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7165"}],"version-history":[{"count":52,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7214,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165\/revisions\/7214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}