A Personal Representative who has been granted legal authority to act on behalf of an. incompetent adult patient or a minor patient can make health care decisions regarding the. patientâs health care and can also assist in exercising the patientâs rights related to protected. health information.
Exception: Don't use a comma with the greeting Dear, as in: Dear Claudio: Dear Claudio, If you are wondering why I have shown the Dear Claudio greeting (salutation) with both a colon and a comma, the colon (:) is used in business letters. The comma is used in personal ones (congratulations, condolences).
The basic idea is that if the name (in the above example, âJessieâ) is the only thing in the world described by the identifier (âmy oldest friendâ), use a comma before the name (and after it as well, unless youâve come to the end of the sentence). If not, donât use any commas.