Diet, medicine, technology, etc have all boosted our life expectancy to extraordinary degrees. The chart on the right is interesting too, mainly because its display greatly undersells the number of extra beats humans get — because the chart’s scale is exponential. 10 to the 9th power is 1...
Such a hardcopy report may be affixed to the patient's chart along with other relevant information, such as handwritten notations, medical transcripts, lab results, x-ray images, etcetera, to provide a relatively complete record of the patient's therapy for later reference when monitoring, ...