Writing Discharge Instructions Surgical includes at least one code block. At roughly 1,932 words the SKILL.md is on the longer end of the catalog distribution.
Writing Discharge Instructions Surgical sits in the General category under the education-learning sub-topic in the ClaudSkills catalog. There are 10 related skills indexed alongside it; comparing a few before installing usually reveals which fits your workflow best.
These notes are auto-generated from features detected in the SKILL.md file and from this catalog's structure — they aren't part of the source repository.
Creates procedure-specific discharge instructions with activity restrictions, wound care, and return precautions.
Writing Discharge Instructions Surgical is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the education-learning sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/writing-discharge-instructions-surgical/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when writing post-surgical discharge instructions, creating patient education materials, or documenting surgical aftercare.
The Writing Discharge Instructions Surgical Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 93,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/writing-discharge-instructions-surgical curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/writing-discharge-instructions-surgical/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/writing-discharge-instructions-surgical/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/writing-discharge-instructions-surgical/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/writing-discharge-instructions-surgical/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\writing-discharge-instructions-surgical\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/writing-discharge-instructions-surgical/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Writing Discharge Instructions Surgical is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the General category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{writing-discharge-instructions-surgical-2026,
author = {CaseMark},
title = {Writing Discharge Instructions Surgical [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/writing-discharge-instructions-surgical/}
}Browse all General skills in the ClaudSkills registry, or explore these other picks from the same category:
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