What is the appropriate diagnosis for a 60-year-old patient who presents to the physician's office with cough, fever, and chills, which the physician states is probably pneumonia?
A. Cough, fever, chills, pneumonia
B. Pneumonia
C. Cough, fever, chills
D. Probable pneumonia
C
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