Patient Charts

The following are comments from doctors as recorded on patient charts . . .

"Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year."

"On the 2nd day the knee was better and on the 3rd day it disappeared completely."

"The patient has been depressed ever since she began seeing me in 1993."

"Discharge status: Alive but without permission."

"Healthy appearing decrepit 69 year-old male, mentally alert but forgetful."

"The patient refused an autopsy."

"Patient has left his white blood cells at another hospital."

"She is numb from her toes down."

"The skin was moist and dry."

"Occasional, constant, infrequent headaches."