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s/l visible smoking and discharge - sm


Posted: May 26, 2012

Dictator doing a progress note on a patient status post fem-pop bypass talking about the wound on his thigh. S/L a visible (or invisible) smoking and discharge from the medial aspect of the right thigh....

Does this make sense?

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