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Hospital staff record identical times

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Even if one newborn absolutely refused to come out for another twenty minutes, hospital staff will often just write down the exact same time for multiple births. This bureaucratic laziness is an absolute nightmare for charting, because those lost minutes drastically alter the visual layout. It essentially forces people to share the exact same profile just because a doctor didn't want to do extra paperwork.

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