I just made my lowest grade ever :(

[Peaches]

Here are some I got wrong on the most recent test:

Diabetic retinopathy, type II, controlled.
My answer: 250.5, 362.03
Correct answer: 250.50, 362.01

Palpitations due to overdose of monoamine oxidase.
My answer: 785.1, 969.0
Correct answer: 969.0, 785.1, E854.0

So the nurse tells us "Actually, the insurance companies would have been fine with those answers.". Yeah, but the insurance company isn't grading me

[Rcourt64]

Originally Posted by Peaches

Here are some I got wrong on the most recent test:

Diabetic retinopathy, type II, controlled.
My answer: 250.5, 362.03
Correct answer: 250.50, 362.01

Palpitations due to overdose of monoamine oxidase.
My answer: 785.1, 969.0
Correct answer: 969.0, 785.1, E854.0

So the nurse tells us "Actually, the insurance companies would have been fine with those answers.". Yeah, but the insurance company isn't grading me

"MAS151 - Medical coding." ??? what the final destination of your schooling?
nurse? parametic? medical assistant? medical issurance ajuster submiter?
I kinda never got the beginning of this story Peaches?

[Peaches]

Originally Posted by Rcourt64

"MAS151 - Medical coding." ??? what the final destination of your schooling?
nurse? parametic? medical assistant? medical issurance ajuster submiter?
I kinda never got the beginning of this story Peaches?

Yep, medical coding. I have MAS152 and 153 to take next semester, then hopefully get a job at a coding factoring a guy a few towns away has set up, then hopefully get him to invest with me in opening one up here where I live or be able to do it from home.

Or I might end up saying "screw this" and take computer programming classes

[Rcourt64]

Originally Posted by Peaches

Yep, medical coding. I have MAS152 and 153 to take next semester, then hopefully get a job at a coding factoring a guy a few towns away has set up, then hopefully get him to invest with me in opening one up here where I live or be able to do it from home.

Or I might end up saying "screw this" and take computer programming classes

ok I'm assuming once you graduate, you'll begin working somewhere & have access to reference books for this information, So basicly they're making you memorize this codeing just for an exam? And you got a 48. from an average of most that was a 49.? with top grade being a 104 points, and considering how the rest of the class did. I think you did an great job.

Now if you had to memorize this and always retain it, without help books then I'd say maybe something different. but I see your doing just fine, "like the rest"


P.S. these medical disc? who makes them?

[Peaches]

Originally Posted by Rcourt64

ok I'm assuming once you graduate, you'll begin working somewhere & have access to reference books for this information, So basicly they're making you memorize this codeing just for an exam? And you got a 48. from an average of most that was a 49.? with top grade being a 104 points, and considering how the rest of the class did. I think you did an great job.

Now if you had to memorize this and always retain it, without help books then I'd say maybe something different. but I see your doing just fine, "like the rest"

Nooooo - it would be impossible to memorize it. Seriously this book is 2 inches think with thin papers and teeny tiny writing. It's a TON of stuff in there. You get to use the book during the tests.

I talked to a girl about it 2 semesters ago. She said she'd always been an A student and she was making a C in the class, so I don't feel too bad.

In reality, the insurance companies and doctor offices are much more lenient than the school, but obviously the school has to grade on what's literally "correct".

[Peaches]

Google shows there are a quite a few companies that make the disks. I guess they are teaching us how to fish instead of giving us a fish by making us learn by the book

[Rcourt64]

Originally Posted by Peaches

Nooooo - it would be impossible to memorize it. Seriously this book is 2 inches think with thin papers and teeny tiny writing. It's a TON of stuff in there. You get to use the book during the tests.

I talked to a girl about it 2 semesters ago. She said she'd always been an A student and she was making a C in the class, so I don't feel too bad.

In reality, the insurance companies and doctor offices are much more lenient than the school, but obviously the school has to grade on what's literally "correct".

Ok well then your fine.

Now the disc? I mean can't you burn those puppies from another student for like maybe half price? or maybe hook them up with a bunch of free porn? LOL
J/k,
But if you feel the disc are to expensive, I remember in school, I would trade with other students books & stuff for like a quarter of the price?

Just an idea peaches.

[Peaches]

Originally Posted by Rcourt64

Ok well then your fine.

Now the disc? I mean can't you burn those puppies from another student for like maybe half price? or maybe hook them up with a bunch of free porn? LOL
J/k,
But if you feel the disc are to expensive, I remember in school, I would trade with other students books & stuff for like a quarter of the price?

Just an idea peaches.

Oh, no, the disks aren't available for us to use in class. And all our coding MUST be done from the book. Like I said, I guess they just figure they'll teach us the hardest way, lol.

I'd buy the disk in a nanosecond if it was allowed. Hell, there was an $80 book I had to use for another class that we could use in the library for free. But I had to go up there 5 or 6 times. It's 50 miles each way so I figured with gas and time, I'd just order the book from Amazon and do it at home

[Hell Puppy]

Originally Posted by Peaches

Here are some I got wrong on the most recent test:

Diabetic retinopathy, type II, controlled.
My answer: 250.5, 362.03
Correct answer: 250.50, 362.01

Palpitations due to overdose of monoamine oxidase.
My answer: 785.1, 969.0
Correct answer: 969.0, 785.1, E854.0

So the nurse tells us "Actually, the insurance companies would have been fine with those answers.". Yeah, but the insurance company isn't grading me

Government involvement fucks everything up.

This should be simplified and readily available in medical software with drop downs and check boxes same way auto insurance adjusts a wrecked car.

I'll admit I couldn't do that one. Every bone in my body would be screaming out "this is stupid, re-engineer it" while I plodded thru it.

Last time I had the occasion to visit a hospital and watch it work and all the processes, I had the same urges. They have people stacked up in the hallway in the ER and are diverting ambulances with people very sick if not dying all because the system is broken and inefficient. I'm not talking the computers specifically but the entire system of how a patient is moved thru from check in, to diagnosis, to testing to identifying available beds. It's all just broken.

Part of that is government over complicating stuff with regulations, part of it is insurance companies not wanting to pay for stuff. But it's mostly lack of someone who understands basic system analysis being a position of power to look at the whole thing from the entrance to patient release ane making it flow smoothly.

Companies that have to try to make a profit do this kind of thing or die. In healthcare, they do not do it, so the customer dies unfortunately.

[Peaches]

Originally Posted by Hell Puppy

I'll admit I couldn't do that one. Every bone in my body would be screaming out "this is stupid, re-engineer it" while I plodded thru it.

You have NO idea how many times I bring up in class that this could all be SO simplified. Hell, even an online based system would be great with a Google like search. But nooo....it might cost more than the $125 book

I figure for $300, if I can do the work from home, I'll buy the damn disk myself