_patient-facing_ adj.

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>> 56,400 hits.
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>> Apparently, any medical personnel, apparatus, or procedure that
>> involves coming into direct - "face-to-face," as it were - contact
>> with a patient.
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> Cf. "client-facing," corporate-speak for jobs requiring face-to-face
> interaction with customers.
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