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> When fired from the hospital

For anyone else that stumbled over that for a second - "fired" is of course synonymous with "discharged". English is a weird language!

I translated this literally from Dutch. I searched for it and I think it is just incorrect. Maybe English is not that weird anyway.

You could be discharged from a job which is formalism for being fired, so I can see how a literal translation could lead you there.

More direct correlation of discharge in the sense of a weapon or firearm.

"Discharged a gun", "Fired a gun"