people were so happy to hear there's now a code for Barrett's Oesophagus

[incandescens]

Meetings to discuss the future implications of the ICD-10 classification update and to ensure that we are adequately prepared for possible queries and have suitably updated the coding manual and training course texts are good ideas, and valuable, and useful.

However, when they go on for three and a quarter hours, there is a part of me that wishes the upcoming ICD-10 classification update somewhere at the bottom of the ocean.

We've got another one on Thursday (and a few more after that). It starts at 9am. I had better get in earlier to make coffee.

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"To hold in my hand a capsule that contained such power. To know that life and death on such a scale was my choice. To know that the tiny pressure of my thumb, enough to break the glass, would end...everything. Yes! I would do it! That power would set me up above the Gods! And through the Daleks, I! SHALL! HAVE! THAT! POWER!"

— Davros, Doctor Who, "Genesis of the Daleks"

Comments

[archangelbeth]

*pats sympathetically*

[incandescens]

Thanks. :)

(It could be a lot worse. It is generally a good update and sorts out a number of long-running problems. There's just so much to do, and there will be more.)

[rvdammit.livejournal.com]

Barrett's Oesophagus

Why am I thinking swallowed hairclips?

[incandescens]

Swallowed hairclips would almost be preferable, believe me. (Look it up on wikipedia. ;))

[flit.livejournal.com]

I actually knew what it was! (I used to have GERD which causes a risk for it.)

[incandescens]

Bravo! Well, so to speak.

(We spell it GORD over here mostly, but that's because we spell oesophagus rather than esophagus. :))