Medical documentation should be

a. alphabetically listed because order is important, and all records should make sense.
b. complete, thorough, and legible so that anyone can read the document and understand the story of the patient's health and disease.
c. written in English regardless of what language the patient or the clinician happen to speak.
d. typed and never handwritten.

b) complete, thorough, and legible so that anyone can read the documentation and understand the story of the patient's health and disease

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