As the following quote shows, doctors and nurses sometimes presume that the other party has explained a medical condition, test or treatment to the patient so that patients do not actually receive information on post-consultation treatments and the subsequent steps involved in their patient journeys.
Health care providers may hope and sometimes presume that their ethics and reasoning are endorsed by the general public, and accordingly that a consensus does indeed exist.
I am head of the Defence School of Specialist Welfare, and as a female social worker it is sometimes presumed that I will be 'pink and fluffy' and not very military-minded.
It was sometimes presumed that "I Know" would spawn many sequels, à la "Halloween" and "Friday the 13th".
I expected that he had come to ask some favor, more fodder or a new corral — he sometimes presumed on the intimacy of our long-ago hunts, and I often obliged him, out of sentimentality.
Disability is sometimes "presumed" on the basis of an assessment of impairment alone.
It is sometimes presumed that those voyeurs represent Picasso in impotent decrepitude, but there seems to be no evidence for the notion.
It is sometimes presumed to be the disease behind several historic epidemics, such as the pestilence described as striking the Philistines in the biblical book of 1 Samuel.
Though Hollywood is sometimes presumed by Iranian officials to be an instrument of the US government, there's no reason, in this wacky parallel universe, why it shouldn't sue itself.
Neburagho, who became a senior leader five years ago, has never been asked if she has children in an interview, but senior colleagues have sometimes presumed that she couldn't take on certain responsibilities, such as leading school trips, because she's a single mother.
