May/June 2003
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Hospital Charts
Actual Excerpts from Hospital Charts
- She has no rigors or shaking chills, but husband states she was very hot in bed last night.
- Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year.
- The patient has been depressed since she began seeing me in 1993.
- Discharge status: alive but without my permission.
- Healthy appearing decrepit 69-year-old male, mentally alert, but forgetful.
- The patient refused autopsy.
- Patient's medical history has been remarkably insignificant with only a 40 pound weight gain in the past three days.
- The skin was moist and dry.
- Occasional constant infrequent headaches.
- Patient was alert and unresponsive.
- She stated that she had been constipated for most of her life, until she got a divorce.
- The lab test indicated abnormal lover function.
- The patient was to have a bowel resection. However, he took a job as a stockbroker instead.
- Patient has two teenage children, but no other abnormalities.
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