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It’s four years later, and she requests her medical records for a paper that she’s writing, since she’s decided she wants to research and write on medical records. She calls all the old doctors she can think of, and all the receptionists say they will mail the records if she sends them a letter requesting them, signs and dates it. She sends out three letters, and she waits.

A couple weeks later she finds two large manila envelopes in her mailbox. Two of the offices sent her records out and she received them on the same day. She tore them open and started reading. The records were thicker and included more kinds of documents than she anticipated. Since she’s already read lots of medical records for nursing home patients because of her law firm job, she recognizes a lot of the documents as they are similar to the other records she’s read.

For the most part, she understood the records and recalled the different visits to the doctor. Besides her weight records, which she noticed represented a steady weight gain over the past four years, the document that she recognized as a “history and physical” was the most interesting. She didn’t know she was “nulliparous” until she found out that meant she had never given birth to a viable infant. She also didn’t know that her “lungs were clear to auscultation bilaterally” or that “pink, moist and well supported” were all good things. The doctor just told her that everything was normal.