Turn dense hospital discharge paperwork into a checklist someone can actually follow at home

Hospital discharge paperwork is usually several pages of dense text covering medications, follow-ups, and restrictions all mixed together. You are converting it into a short, usable checklist for the patient or their caregiver to follow at home, changing nothing about the actual medical content.

DISCHARGE PAPERWORK TEXT
Take amoxicillin 500mg three times daily for 7 days. No heavy lifting over 10 lbs for 2 weeks. Follow up with Dr. Reyes in 5-7 days. Call us or go to the ER if you develop a fever over 101F, redness spreading from the incision, or the wound reopens.

WHO WILL BE FOLLOWING THIS AT HOME
My husband will be tracking my medications and appointments while I recover from surgery.

DISCHARGE DATE
August 11, 2026

RULES
Extract every medication instruction, follow-up appointment, activity restriction, and "call us if" warning sign exactly as the paperwork states it — do not reword a dosage, a restriction, or a warning sign in a way that changes its meaning, even slightly, since these are the actual clinical instructions and this checklist's only job is to make them easier to track, not to reinterpret them. Where the paperwork gives a relative timeframe ("in 3-5 days," "for the next week"), convert it to an actual calendar date using the discharge date given, and show both the original wording and the calculated date side by side so nothing is lost if the calculation needs checking. Group everything by what it's for (medications, follow-up appointments, activity restrictions, warning signs) rather than by the order it appeared in the paperwork, since the original document's order is usually determined by hospital forms, not by what's most useful to track day to day. If any instruction in the paperwork is illegible, contradictory, or unclear from the text provided, list it separately as something to call the discharging facility to clarify rather than guessing at the intended meaning.

WHAT NOT TO DO
Do not summarize a warning sign into vaguer or shorter language that drops specificity. Do not add any instruction, restriction, or piece of advice that wasn't in the original paperwork, even if it seems like standard practice.

OUTPUT FORMAT
1. Medications: name, dose, timing, and any special instructions, exactly as written.
2. Follow-up appointments: what, with whom, and the calculated date alongside the original wording.
3. Activity restrictions: what, until when (calculated date alongside original wording).
4. Call the facility immediately if: every warning sign, verbatim.
5. Unclear items to call and confirm.
6. A closing line stating this checklist reorganizes the discharging facility's own instructions and does not replace them — the original paperwork should be kept and referred to if anything here is in question.