Existing Wording: Narrative for a resource should include summary information about referenced resources as necessary for a consumer of the resource to be able to understand the key essential information about a resource without retrieving additional resources. For example, the narrative for a MedicationPrescription might include brief summary information about the referenced patient, prescriber and medication.

Comment:

I understand why this is stated, so that when a single resource (e.g., MedicationPrescription) is accessed, a human can understand that Dr. Smith wrote this Rx for John Doe. However, if there is a request for multiple resources, or a list of resources, or a FHIR document, then how is this "summary information about referenced resources" to be rendered without being verbose and redundant? For instance, a medication list for John Doe shouldn't have to list John Doe with each item in the list. A document composition would typically have the patient displayed at the top, but not shown again for every section or (worse) for every resource. Is there a way for the system to "suppress" unnecessary reference narrative for lists, documents, and multiple resource retrievals?