We changed it from lawyerese to doctorese, and that helped at least a little bit.
Sheldon Whitehouse: “We changed it from lawyerese to doctorese, and that helped at least a little bit.”
On the recordJune 25, 2013
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Senator Whitehouse discusses simplifying legal language in advance directives for better understanding.
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