Nothing serious, but it got him an early discharge and he was home for Christmas.

"These days we've moved to early discharge, but when they get home, there's nothing for women out there."

Most of the reduction was due to earlier discharge from the hospital.

Got a bad case of the bends and took an early discharge.

"The emotional impact of an early discharge has not been evaluated," she said.

Service women who married after the war could ask for an early discharge on compassionate grounds.

Many had been killed, others crippled and sent back to Rome for early discharge.

A doctor could, "in consultation with the mother," decide that on an earlier discharge.

It was Edwards's successful application that led to his early discharge from regular military service.

In their paper, the doctors determined that 80 of the 507 heart attack patients studied were healthy enough to be considered for early discharge.

She gave no reason for his early discharge.

He stayed in the role for 12 months before his feet problems resulted in an early discharge.

But his wife's persistence led him to relent, he said in an interview, and seek an early discharge.

His military service ended with an early discharge on grounds of conscientious objection.

The debate is largely emotional with minimal anecdotal evidence of harm from early discharge.

The study also reinforced concerns that the early discharge of elderly patients from hospitals to nursing homes may increase death rates.

With the early discharge of new mothers from hospitals, it is vital that women have someone to go to with questions.

My sister had to sign an affidavit absolving the hospital from any responsibility for the possible consequences of the early discharge.

But the senior officers criticized him after he became disenchanted with some aspects of Navy life and sought an early discharge in 1955.

(He was granted an early discharge to attend divinity school.)

Early discharge has also occurred in the UK and Australia.

He requested, and was granted, an early discharge from his duties, and returned to Roman politics.

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He planned to give early discharges to another 250 men whose enlistments would expire while Constellation was overseas.

The hospital was chosen for the bill signing because it was the site of a rally in March protesting early discharges.