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compassionate

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It has been told to ensure residents' health and wellbeing needs were being accurately assessed, documented and met - and that there was skilled and compassionate leadership at all levels of the organisation.

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“That, to me, is what I like about the character of Tom Brandis. He’s not a great FBI agent, but he is a compassionate person.”

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The compassionate nursing care he received while hospitalized touched him so much that he decided he wanted to provide the same for others.

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"I believe that those genuinely fleeing persecution should be afforded asylum and that is a compassionate act," he added.

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Tonally, this steady and powerful film is everything the original program wasn’t: hesitant, sorrowful and compassionate for every human being onscreen.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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