"There couldn't be a worse time, a less receptive time, to offer people information than the 11 minutes before they leave the building, " said readmissions expert Dr. Eric Coleman of the University of Colorado in Denver.

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The audience has a time and place to be receptive to your ideas.

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But yeah, I mean I think there was a window in time where people were more receptive to it than - or were receptive to it, and it was a window of opportunity.

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Ms. MARGUERITA SOLARSANO (Hispanic Women's Organization): Latinos have to learn how to work and live in this area, but at the same time the Anglo community has been very receptive, helpful.

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Such health-care changes must be grounded in a social consensus built over time, and the public may become receptive considering the convulsions that ObamaCare will start to inflict later this year.

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U. nurses and doctors are in short supply, pressed for time, overwhelmed with patients, and hardly receptive to the idea of filling out yet another piece of paper?

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Real timing is about reaching individuals when they are most receptive, taking into account how they are spending their time, what they are thinking about at any given point in time and what they are tying to accomplish.

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She sought out the good doctor around 1990, at a time when he was only accepting patients into his program that would be receptive to the notion that their pain was not due to structural abnormalities.

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They have also calculated that an ideal time to change a mother's habits is when a new baby arrives (because she is then more receptive to new ideas and also in more frequent contact with health workers).

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