is a sitizen different from a couch potato?
Lesley
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From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Adrian Midgley
Sent: 13 August 2004 10:29
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Subject: Re: Read code query
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 00:58:26 +0100, David J Brown
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> Whilst looking I also found
>
> T411y Crushed-ships in collision - other specified person injured
> T411z Crushed-ships in collision - unspecified person injured
> T412y Crushed by lifeboat - other specified person injured
> T412z Crushed by lifeboat - unspecified person injured
>
> None of these appear to be majorly useful in general practice unless you
> have a practice at the seaside - another problem to replace melanoma?
If your general practice was on a merchant ship or in a port, perhaps they
might be useful occasionally, but they are not really GP codes, they are
automatically imported from ICD.
ICD is for governments to compare notes on what their sitizens and
subjects die of or suffer from, and since it started in 1895 or so,
shipping accidents would be a significant and obvious category.
The aeronautical and astronautical codes and rubrics arise by the same
mechanism.
ALternatively one could design a system for using several code
dictionaries, and pick whichever one suited, or accept whichever foreign
code someone sent you in an electronic communication, but when it was
being worked out the integration appraoch carried the day.
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