I can't say that I've ever met any nurses who became coders, however the president of an electronic medical records startup I once worked for, was a physician.

I can't say that I've ever met any nurses who became coders, however the president of an electronic medical records startup I once worked for, was a physician. He wasn't a coder, but he had some very good ideas about how our product should work. The other two cofounders were experienced coders. I myself am trained as a physicist. I once met a former french teacher. It's quite common for people to change careers into coding. Were you to document your story, it would attact a lot of interests; a website would be popular, a book might be a best-seller. I once had a psychiatrist who was a nuclear physicist before she became a shrink. I looked her up online, she went to medical school in Tennessee - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, then school on the side.