These may be of interest for future use
TE633 Shark Bite
TE404 Poisoning due to Gila Monster Venom
T4200 Fall from gangplank, occupant of small unpowered boat injured
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> From: Toby Lipman 7, Collingwood Terrace, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Tel 0191-2811060 (home), 0191-2869178 (surgery) <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Pigs and Read codes
> Date: 29 January 1998 23:38
>
> 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
> --
> Toby Lipman 7, Collingwood Terrace, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne. Tel
> 0191-2811060 (home), 0191-2437000 (surgery)
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