Flash Fiction Challenge: Choose Your Random Sentence

Flash Fiction Challenge: Choose Your Random Sentence (courtesy of terribleminds)

The challenge is to write a story based on a sentence spewed out by this sentence generator.

“THE HYPOTHETICAL RECIPIENT COMPROMISES THE DIAGNOSIS”

October 15, 1995

I stole some medical records from my primary care physician today.

Actually, I am sleeping with a nurse at the office and convinced her to photocopy the medical record of a recently diseased patient which she readily obliged in that tingly, after-sex fog that so definitively suspends our faculties.

I just put in my two weeks, she told me. So what do I care?

I was fogged up too and I don’t know why I did it but I did. And now I’m left to wonder how often the hypothetical recipient compromises the diagnosis and it costs a person their life.

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PATIENT CHART                                  Bloomington Medical Group

PATIENT: Dillard, Anthony                 DATE: September 22, 1995

GENDER: Male                                       DOB: 04/08/1979

STATUS: Active Closed (patient deceased)

PROBLEM HISTORY:

ID: SOUC3    NAME: Osteomyelitis    STATUS: Active   PRIORITY: High
ID: SOUC1    NAME: Gangrene            STATUS: Active   PRIORITY: High

VISIT DIAGNOSIS: Progressive Gangrene in left foot as a result of untreated Osteomyelitis. Infection spreading to upper leg, blood stream. Patient’s condition serious. Recommend immediate amputation of left leg at upper thigh.

CHIEF COMPLAINTS: Loss of feeling in left leg, foul-smelling odor, delirium, fever, severe pain, shakes

VITALS: WT: 185 (83.9 kg), HT: 63 (160 cm), TMP: 100.3 (38 C). BP: 145/100

HISTORICAL DIAGNOSIS:

9/20/1995 — Patient admitted to Bloomington General for advanced stage Gangrene
7/25/1995 — Patient admitted to Bloomington General for alcohol poisoning
6/20/1995 — Progressive Gangrene identified, spreading to blood stream
6/10/1995 — Blood work returns positive for gangrene resulting from untreated Osteomyelitis
6/10/1995 — Blood work returns positive for Osteomyelitis at site of proximal phalanx fracture
6/6/1995 — Admitted to Bloomington General for severe dehydration
4/10/1994 — Fractured proximal phalanx of left big toe

ADDITIONAL NOTES: Patient delayed treatment of Osteomyelitis as a result of second opinion. Delay gave time for Osteomyelitis to progress, spread and turn Gangrene. Condition is serious. Containment might no longer be possible.

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October 20, 1995

I’ve not talked to the nurse in a while.

I want to give the medical record back so that they can file it away somewhere next to other last names that start with D. 

I want to put the recently deceased out of my mind.

I want to forget about Anthony Dillard.