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While it seems overkill, it is unambiguous. Errors are easy to make in medicine. When I was a neuro tech, I remember doing a nerve conduction study on a patien
by vacri 11y ago
While it seems overkill, it is unambiguous. Errors are easy to make in medicine.
When I was a neuro tech, I remember doing a nerve conduction study on a patient, on one arm only, and the patient had no abnormality, when went into my report. The doctor doing the final report for the record copy/pasted from his list of stanzas, and forgot to switch 'left' in his copypasta to 'right', which I caught. This particular doctor was perfectly competent; it's just that there's a thousand ways to make errors like this (and yes, copying from a list of stanzas isn't the best method, but neither is individually typing out the same diagnosis paragraphs again and again).
Being unambigous with which side of the body and which body part is very important in medicine.
- hga 11y agoOK, that's a good argument, although the system of coding each as a separate code without a "system" is crazy (for a bit I thought they were at least using Sinister/Dexter, but that didn't seem to be the case). But probably required due to legacy systems. Although I'd say this is still an experiment in which will result in the fewest mistakes. Maybe someone should have paid Kaiser or the like to try this out first to find out some of the consequences?
- vacri 11y agoThe lack of a system to the coding is crazy. You find all sorts of nonsense next to each other. Unfortunately, there is a hell of a lot of politics in medicine - infrastructural change is extraordinarily difficult.