Monday, September 14, 2015

One Symptom in New Medical Codes: Doctor Anxiety

One Symptom in New Medical Codes: Doctor Anxiety-newyorktimes: The nation’s health care providers are under orders to start using a new system of medical codes to describe illnesses and injuries in more detail than ever before. The codes will cover common ailments: Did a diabetic also have kidney disease? But also included are some that are far less common: whether the patient was crushed by a crocodile or sucked into a jet engine.