>>>:) I can't help it.
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>LOL. You should have been a surgeon, or a clinical coder. Actually I think you'd make an *excellent* clinical coder. They too are at risk from outsourcing, but it's easy to work from home and keep your own hours. A good contract coder can expect to clear 6 figures and it'll get better with ICD-10 due in 2014.

I've implemented ICD X in january 1995... so what's taking them so long? Or was the then version completely aborted, or what? I know the hungarian translation they used there was near impossible to search unless you had full text indexing (which was rather SF back then), because the whole list started with A or Az. Which is the hungarian definite article. I remember the doctors hated the X, because the way diagnoses were classified didn't make half the sense that IX did. Maybe the definition of "intuitive" needed a new, less intuitive, redefinition :).