What do you call it when an aide or nurse or other person working in a hospital
takes your meal order.
For example I want a better term or the verb for
"..hands out and collects the menus and records what patients want to eat."
Learn English – The term when a person working in a hospital ask you what you want to eat
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If they are participating in a scientific research study, an individual would be called a participant and a group would be called a test group.
If the group is surveyed without an actual manipulation, it would be described as a focus group. The individuals would still be called participants.
Since you've edited your question, it seems you want John's friend to use a word that implies that John is just a pawn. Rather than something that is specifically about research participation, I'd recommend one of my favorites, patsy, which is insulting and implies that John is mindlessly and foolishly going along with whatever he is told to do.
If you want a phrase that is patently offensive, you could use meat puppet.
There are a number of possibilities:
1) Correct
2) Remedy "to provide or serve as a remedy for"
Of the two, "to correct a deficiency" is rather more common.
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The process may vary from hospital to hospital, and within a hospital may vary depending how sick and/or capable of communication the patient is and whether the patient is on a special diet or otherwise requires special supervision by the dietician. In the only hospital I have been in, I was supposed to telephone my order -- to a real person -- and give her my order. If I had not phoned about three hours before the meal, someone phoned me and asked for my order.
Now, to answer your question about the English. In the simple case it is takes the patient's meal order. My reference: being asked several times by a nurse or nurse's aide "Have you phoned in your dinner order yet?"
The more complicated case probably involves referring to the dietician's orders for the patient.