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).
This sentence has two independent clauses. They are connected by and with a comma before it. The and and the comma are correct. However, adding a comma after thus is not correct because it is an adverb; the comma after it is not necessary. If thus is used as a conjunctive adverb (without and), a semi-colon and a comma are necessary.