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And, again, when we were alerted, we took what we thought was the right course of action".
Most entries lack that introductory, establishing context but, thus alerted, we wonder how many more of these free-floating fragments are imbued with undated history.
"As soon as we were alerted, we took immediate action to suspend him from clinical practice".
"As soon as we're alerted, we start calling the patient's doctor, coroner, mortuary shipping service, embalmer, airline, US Embassy and Homeland Security to smooth the way.
"One of our consultants identified one or two cases where we felt the care offered by one of our doctors was not as complete as it should be, and as soon the management in the hospital were alerted, we decided to review that doctor's work in greater detail and we've been doing that over the last few days.
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Likewise, if we repeatedly warn when we should alert, we may create the boy who cried wolf, making the cost of achieving real warning higher.
We were not able to determine if any of the FDA alerts we analyzed were pre-dated by alerts issued in non-US countries.
For example, if we alert when we should be informing, we unjustifiably increase costs and may impose long-term precautions that are impossible to sustain.
"If we had been alerted earlier, we would have taken action earlier".
It wasn't (spoiler alert: "we'll break every embargo, but there will be exceptions").
We politely alerted people when we were AFK by announcing BRB.
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