Two years into my coding career I had a supervisor say my strep throat coding needed work Not wrong just imprecise I used J02.9 for almost every sore throat encounter It was acceptable but lacked specificity I did not understand J02.0 or J03.00 versus J03.01 The ICD 10 for strep throat codes had never been
My daughter was eight weeks old and it was early morning and she was making a sound I had never heard before She felt warm and the thermometer showed 38.4 We sat there not knowing what to do I searched do newborns get strep throat and found answers that were unclear We called for help
My mother in law called it facial sickness. She got it every winter starting with a cold that dragged on. Her cheeks would swell slightly and she would press her face. Every winter my father in law drove her to the pharmacy and she came home with antibiotics. Nobody asked if a sinus infection is
He turned sixty-eight last year, my father, set in his ways like some men get. Three illnesses hit him through that cold stretch, one after another, starting just before Thanksgiving and dragging into early March.Each time he went to the pharmacist described symptoms and got antibiotics. Each time he felt no better after four days
He turned sixty-eight last year, my father, set in his ways like some men get. Three illnesses hit him through that cold stretch, one after another, starting just before Thanksgiving and dragging into early March.Each time he went to the pharmacist described symptoms and got antibiotics. Each time he felt no better after four days
Last October I sat through a day of work with what I kept calling just a headache. My neck felt stiff. My eyes didn’t want to focus properly. Every time I stood up the room swayed a little. I told myself it was screen fatigue. Too much coffee. Not enough sleep. By morning I had
Three years back my mother-in-law was struck down at home and everything changed quickly. When the paramedics had yet to arrive at the hospital, the doctor working in the ER was already using words that I could not comprehend. “Bacteremia vs. sepsis” were the first words that flew out of his mouth after only a
My neighbour Rosa called me at six in the morning last November and panicked. Overnight, the ambulance took her elderly mother to the hospital. Doctors repeated a term – sepsis – that slipped through Rosa’s understanding. She lived there. Medical words though? Nothing like the English she knew.She kept asking me about sepsis in Spanish.
Last winter broke me a little, honestly. My eight-year-old woke up on a Friday morning and just couldn’t swallow properly. That look on her face, her hand going to her throat again, made me pause. I thought maybe it meant little, just a passing thing. Warm honey water seemed safe enough and back under the
I first encountered the Hume body pod reviews fitness assessment at a sports performance facility where the technician explained that this technology would give me considerably more useful information about my body composition than the standard BMI calculation my doctor had been using for years without telling me anything meaningful about my actual muscle to