by Linda Farrington | Feb 4, 2017 | Real Life Coding
As coders, we take our jobs very seriously, sometimes a little too seriously. What I mean by that is sometimes we take what we read to heart. As we are coding, we are reading the story of peoples’ lives and of their illnesses, their tragedies, their injuries, and...
by Linda Farrington | Oct 30, 2015 | Real Life Coding
In this season of Halloween, I thought I would code my personal venomous spider experience in ICD-10-CM and use some of those new external cause codes. So here’s my spider story: I was working down in Tucson, Arizona and our team decided to stay at a beautiful resort...
by Linda Farrington | Jan 20, 2014 | Real Life Coding
I was working down in Tucson, Arizona and our team decided to stay at a beautiful resort out in the desert. I had to be up early the next morning and ready to go by 6 am. (Those of you who know me know that I am not a morning person.) Anyway, when I got out of the...
