Work continues busy. Today's high point was trying to work out the proper coding for a case of nipple transplant.
(The patient in question had had some skin excised from his neck - I assume it was a he, for reasons that will become apparent -- and had required a skin/muscle graft (pectoralis minor) from his chest to go on the excision area on his neck. This skin graft had included one of the nipples. The patient was now requesting that the nipple be removed from his neck and put back on his chest. The question was, how was the excision and resiting of the nipple to be coded?)
(They're not always that interesting.)
(And yes, I did make references to witch-burning, extra nipples, and so on.)
Another coworker has been invited to a christening in October, and has requested that I make a quilt for her. This is rather cool. (Though probably like buses, with a long wait and then three coming along at once.)
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What can you find at Watchmaker's Hill?
A sinister fungal wilderness by the river. The Department of Menace Eradication subcontracts the adventurous to deal with the things that slither out of Bugsby's Marshes. An observatory atop the hill employs only blind men.
-- Echo Bazaar
(The patient in question had had some skin excised from his neck - I assume it was a he, for reasons that will become apparent -- and had required a skin/muscle graft (pectoralis minor) from his chest to go on the excision area on his neck. This skin graft had included one of the nipples. The patient was now requesting that the nipple be removed from his neck and put back on his chest. The question was, how was the excision and resiting of the nipple to be coded?)
(They're not always that interesting.)
(And yes, I did make references to witch-burning, extra nipples, and so on.)
Another coworker has been invited to a christening in October, and has requested that I make a quilt for her. This is rather cool. (Though probably like buses, with a long wait and then three coming along at once.)
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What can you find at Watchmaker's Hill?
A sinister fungal wilderness by the river. The Department of Menace Eradication subcontracts the adventurous to deal with the things that slither out of Bugsby's Marshes. An observatory atop the hill employs only blind men.
-- Echo Bazaar
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Date: 2011-06-22 12:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-22 12:42 am (UTC)I don't know, though. We only have the basic documentation, and of course it's been redacted to remove all the patient-sensitive data as well. (We have to send a lot of queries back due to insufficient information.)
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