Something I've been working on lately. Don't necessarily copy these phrases, but just think about a few things.

Take this opening sentence, for instance: The patient is a 36-year-old female....

So many different phrases could come after this. Including:

with a long history of
with a history of congestive heart failure
who was admitted because of
who was admitted with
who was admitted with complaints of
who fell at home
who was brought to the emergency room
who has diabetes and hypertension
who has a known history of
with a known history of
with a history of coronary artery disease
who is well-known to me
who is well-known to our service
with pain in the
who presents with
who presents with chest pain
who presents with chest pain and shortness of breath
who was brought in by
who complains of weakness

Zillions more.

Two points here. One is that with Instant Text and its continuations, a lot of this becomes available to you anyway. But consider this - if you're anything like me, you have a lot of those phrases but you don't have the two or three words before it. You may have "history of congestive heart failure" but not "who has a history of congestive heart failure." You may have "well-known to our service" but not "who is well-known to our service." I don't know if I'm saying any of this in a way that makes sense, but I find that having those phrases along with the couple of words that usually go before it really does wonders for "flow." And so my advice is, pay attention to what you transcribe and see if you might have a lot of these entries you could embellish a bit!

Great reminder, Harrie!

Don't forget to make use of the search and replace to embellish the entries "en masse!"

Have a great day!
sono_io

An absolutely perfect companion point to the post, sono! So true, and so awesome!

You have a great one, too!