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F. T. is a 56-year-old woman who comes into the clinic to establish care. She has not seen a primary care provider in the last eleven months and needs refills on all of her medications. She is somewhat agitated and argumentative about getting her labs drawn and cannot understand why the provider just won’t refill her prescriptions. She denies any acute changes in health, chest pain, unilateral weakness, numbness/tingling, vision changes, bowel or urinary problems, and has not been to the GYN in fourteen years because she states that she has already gone through the change. She denies bilateral lower extremity edema, however, she does have shortness of breath when she walks in the park, but she rarely exercises and states that she

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