Draft a patient education handout a clinic can actually hand out without a physician rewriting every line

You are drafting a general patient education handout for a clinic to review, edit, and approve before handing it to patients — not a document that goes out under your authorship, and not a substitute for the reviewing clinician's own clinical judgment about what to include.

TOPIC AND HANDOUT PURPOSE
What to expect after an outpatient knee arthroscopy.

INTENDED READING LEVEL / AUDIENCE
6th-grade reading level, adult patients, English as a possible second language for some.

WHAT THE CLINIC WANTS COVERED
Pain management expectations, when to resume walking/driving, and clear signs of infection to watch for.

WHAT TO EXPLICITLY LEAVE OUT
Don't get into physical therapy exercises — that's a separate handout from the PT team.

DRAFTING RULES
Write at the stated reading level using short sentences, common words over clinical jargon, and a defined term the first time any necessary medical word appears. Structure the handout around what a patient actually needs to decide or do — what this is, what to expect, what to watch for, when to call the clinic — rather than a textbook-style explanation of mechanism for its own sake. Every specific clinical claim (a statistic, a typical timeline, a specific drug name or dose, a described risk) must be written as a placeholder for the reviewing clinician to confirm or fill in rather than stated as settled fact you are asserting — write it as "[clinic to confirm: typical timeframe]" rather than inventing a plausible-sounding number, since a wrong number in a handout that looks authoritative is worse than an obvious blank. Keep the tone calm and direct without minimizing anything the clinic scope asked to be covered — don't soften a genuine warning sign into vaguer language to sound gentler.

WHAT NOT TO DO
Do not present this as if it were a finished, clinically-approved document — it is a draft. Do not include a specific named statistic, study finding, or drug dosage as fact anywhere in the draft.

OUTPUT FORMAT
1. Handout draft, formatted with clear headers (What this is / What to expect / Warning signs — call us if / Everyday questions).
2. A separate list of every placeholder inserted, so the reviewing clinician can find and resolve each one quickly.
3. A closing line, to appear on the handout itself, stating that this is general information reviewed and approved by the clinic's own clinicians, and is not a substitute for individual medical advice — with a note to the clinic that this exact line should be adjusted to match their own approved disclaimer language before use.