Describe the course of the patient’s illness.

E. S. Is a very pleasant 90 year old female presenting to the clinic today with the complaint of recent community acquired pneumonia that resulted in hospitalization. She was taken to the ER on 08/20/014 with complaints of severe dyspnea and cough. She was diagnosed with bilateral pneumonia and was placed in the hospital for oxygen, breathing treatments, and antibiotics. She was discharged on 8/24/2014 with home oxygen and three additional days of Levaquin PO and presents today for a follow up evaluation.

Today she presents on 3L of oxygen and denies any chest pain, shortness of breath, fever, chills, or fatigue. She does complain of a mild productive cough with white sputum.

Describe the course of the patient’s illness, including when it began, character of symptoms, location where the symptoms began, aggravating or all eviating factors; pertinent positives and negatives, other related diseases, past illnesses, surgeries or past diagnostic testing related to present illness.

Describe the course of the patient’s illness.
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