Displaying string that was inserted using Select statement

Hi,

While updating the patient record, i am using select statement
<%= select ‘patient’, ‘status’, [[‘case study’,1],
[‘Critical!’,2],
[‘Normal’,3] %>

and now when i am displaying the patient record, i dont want to show
using select box (as it becomes editable), instead i can display using
string. But how can i write that logic in view. 1 shud be printed as 1
and 2 as critical.

Any suggestions?

Regards,
Sandeep G