It’s Tuesday morning, a typical day for my mom at work, she’s a unit clerk. But not for me, today I am spending the whole day with her at her workplace, hospital, to do my paperwork for Medical Terminology class. She started by going through the charts one by one and I did the same thing. Due to hospital policy, patient’s names are not to be revealed on this report.
5U-Room 1:
Patient was admitted with constant pain on the right side of the abdomen under the rib cage, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, fatigue and jaundice. A prognosis of Hepatitis was made. Liver test was ordered: Bilirubin, Albumin, Prothrombin time, cholesterol, Alanine aminotransferase(ALT), Aspartate aminotransferase(AST), Alkalline prosperities and Lactic dehydrogenase(LDH). After the tests were completed, patient was diagnosed of Hepatitis for having abnormal liver test. Now its up to the doctors to see if the patient has acute or chronic Hepatitis. Unfortunately, the patient has the chronic infection. With this......
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