I'm irritated by Read codes again.
This afternoon a patient came in with back pain. He works at a piggery
and had been assaulted by a porcine hooligan in early January, causing a
back injury and some pain. The pain settled, he went back to work, and
the pig assaulted him again, causing even more pain. He said that he was
going to look for another job, as he was fed up with the way the pigs
behave.
I tried to code "assault by pig" but, unbelievably, there is no such
code.
One of our practice nurses is doing a nurse practitioner course and was
sitting in on the surgery to learn about what GPs do. I showed her the
Read code section on spacecraft accidents and we agreed that assaults by
pigs were probably commoner than explosions on spacecraft (at least in
general practice).
So why can't we code "assault by pig"? I might want to audit it some
day.
Toby
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Toby Lipman 7, Collingwood Terrace, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne. Tel
0191-2811060 (home), 0191-2437000 (surgery)
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