Massachusetts doctors, hospitals received $35.8 million in gifts from device, drug companies.

The AP (11/23) reports, "Massachusetts doctors and hospitals have received nearly $35.8 million in payments from medical device manufacturers and drug companies during the last six months of 2009," according to a report. The "payments included speaking and consulting fees, meals, and education and marketing programs." The report "was the result of a 2008 state law that banned some types of gifts outright and required companies to report other types of payments."

Setting viewing preferences for recipients (in Acrobat)

From PDF for lawyers blog- a great PDF tip!

How do you set preferences for the recipient of a PDF document you created? Normally, you won't care about doing this, but there are times when you should.

For example, let's say the document below is a contract that controls a certain dispute.

I want to send this contract, which we'll pretend has dozens of parts (in reality you'll see that it only has 9 parts) to another lawyer for him to read over. To make it easier to navigate the document I'll probably quickly bookmark it so that all of the sections were listed along the left hand side in the bookmarks panel. Note, I'm creating these bookmarks for the other lawyer's benefit. And if he doesn't see the bookmarks then I've done extra work for nothing.

I could explain to him that there are bookmarks in the document, and then provide a short explanation of how to open the bookmarks panel. Odds are, though, that he wouldn't bother to open the bookmarks panel (trust me, I've field tested this proposition extensively). No, the easiest thing for me is to simply change the document preferences so that the bookmarks panel opens automatically.

Here's how you do that. Navigate the Acrobat menu as follows: FILE > PROPERTIES (or use the keyboard combo CONTROL + D, or COMMAND + D on a Mac). That will pull up the following dialogue box:

As noted on the image above, you should (1) click the 'Initial View' tab, and then (2) set the Navigation Tab to 'Bookmarks Panel and Page'. Finally, save the document with these changes and send it along to the recipient.

When he or she opens the document it will have the bookmarks panel already in view. Most people know what to do at this point. Of course, you can create bookmarks for pages that you specifically want to discuss too. You can use bookmarks all kinds of ways. But they're only helpful if the recipient knows they're there. And now you know how to make sure that happens.

For more information on using bookmarks, click here.

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