Dear Heloise: After reading your column in The Orange County (Calif.) Register about phone and cell-phone abuses, it reminded me of a cure that I used when in medical practice. I often would enter an exam room and have to wait until the patient finished a cell-phone call before beginning the examination (all the while worrying about other patients waiting to be seen).

I cured that annoying habit of some patients by opening the exam door and apologizing for the intrusion of their phone call and saying I would be back shortly, but to go ahead with their call—and then I’d come back la...

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