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CHRISTMAS 2016: PROFESSIONAL MATTERS A millennial discharge summary Paul Wicks imagines a discharge summary from the not too distant future Paul Wicks vice president of innovation PatientsLikeMe, Cambridge, MA 02141, USA Disclosures: Paul Wicks is just barely a millennial, which he thinks entitles him to make fun of his own generation (and to just be entitled generally). No patients were trolled during the writing of this article. Competing interests: I have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and declare that I have no competing interests. Provenance and peer review: Commissioned; not externally peer reviewed. Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/ permissions [email protected] For personal use only: See rights and reprints http://www.bmj.com/permissions Subscribe: http://www.bmj.com/subscribe BMJ 2016;355:i6607 doi: 10.1136/bmj.i6607 (Published 15 December 2016) Page 1 of 2 Feature FEATURE on 31 October 2020 by guest. Protected by copyright. http://www.bmj.com/ BMJ: first published as 10.1136/bmj.i6607 on 15 December 2016. Downloaded from

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CHRISTMAS 2016: PROFESSIONAL MATTERS

A millennial discharge summaryPaul Wicks imagines a discharge summary from the not too distant future

Paul Wicks vice president of innovation

PatientsLikeMe, Cambridge, MA 02141, USA

Disclosures: Paul Wicks is just barely a millennial, which hethinks entitles him to make fun of his own generation (and tojust be entitled generally). No patients were trolled during thewriting of this article.

Competing interests: I have read and understood BMJ policy ondeclaration of interests and declare that I have no competing interests.

Provenance and peer review: Commissioned; not externally peerreviewed.Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not alreadygranted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions

[email protected]

For personal use only: See rights and reprints http://www.bmj.com/permissions Subscribe: http://www.bmj.com/subscribe

BMJ 2016;355:i6607 doi: 10.1136/bmj.i6607 (Published 15 December 2016) Page 1 of 2

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