But whenever I clicked on their notes to see what happened to my patient during their recent visit to the eye doctor, I would invariably see this neatly typed, succinct summary: "See paper chart".
"Winnie usually visited Madiba and invariably sent her good wishes to me, which he was pleased to convey".
When I travel and tell people where I'm from, I almost invariably hear that it is either the coolest town they have ever visited or the place they most want to go on their next vacation.
Foreigners visiting India invariably run into the chaotic, often dirty public sphere throbbing outside their hotels, coloring their impressions of the country.
Although the neighborhood is still home to the Copacabana Palace, where visiting celebrities invariably stay, the area has lost much of its sheen and isn't considered entirely safe for those conspicuously wealthy or foreign.
Today, however, surfers visiting Wales invariably shoot straight past Porthcawl as they make a bee-line to the better-known and often more scenic surf beaches of the Gower or Pembrokeshire.
The result, as she recounts in "Bringing Up Bébé" (Penguin Press), was that Bean was invariably the most ill-behaved child in every Paris restaurant and park she visited.
Death, who invariably makes a berobed, sickle-holding appearance in each Pratchett volume, has earlier visited him in hospital and condemned him to an "interesting life".
Colombia aside, I have visited mines as far apart as Peru and the Philippines, and the story of community upheaval is invariably the same.
He has visited the National Tennis Centre at Roehampton, shaken hands with the greats and enjoyed the warm glow of publicity that such associations invariably bring to politicians.
