{"id":164,"date":"2017-06-21T23:42:45","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T03:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/healthcasestudies\/?post_type=chapter&p=164"},"modified":"2017-11-29T15:57:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T20:57:28","slug":"patient-fred-johnson","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/healthcasestudies\/chapter\/patient-fred-johnson\/","title":{"raw":"Patient: Fred Johnson","rendered":"Patient: Fred Johnson"},"content":{"raw":"[caption id=\"attachment_464\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"175\"] Fred Johnson[\/caption]\r\n\r\nPatient:<\/strong> Fred Johnson\r\n\r\nDate of Birth:<\/strong> 11\/11\/19xx\r\n
PERSONA<\/h4>\r\nFred is a 57 year old male. He was born on a First Nations reserve and is from the Coast Salish Nation. He lives with his partner, Eric. They have been together for six\u00a0years and they are planning their wedding which is set to occur in six weeks. They have no children, but they have a black Labrador named Sam. Fred\u2019s parents live in another province and they didn\u2019t see Fred for many years after he told them that he was homosexual. They are, however, finally coming to terms with his relationship with Eric and have promised to be at the wedding.\r\n\r\nFred has a history of hypertension.\u00a0He is constantly watching his diet and exercise, and trying to keep his weight down. He had an appendectomy as a child, but has had no other surgeries.\r\n\r\nFred enjoys reading, walking, and cooking. He smokes about one pack of cigarettes a day, but he is constantly trying to quit. Eric disapproves of Fred\u2019s smoking and is always encouraging him to stop or at least cut back on the number of cigarettes he smokes.\r\n
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