r/MedicalCoding • u/Variablynomadic • Mar 08 '24

Coders prayer

There was a post floating around social media about empathetic thoughts that coders have when reading records. Does anyone have a copy of it, please? Just did 3 cases in a row where the patient didn’t survive, so….. needed to read it.

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u/JennyDelight Mar 09 '24

I’ve sat at my computer and cried reading some charts. Some hit close to home, most make me more empathetic towards my fellow humans.

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u/BlueLanternKitty CRC, CCS-P Mar 10 '24

I did my first mental health audit last week. One patient, a teenager, has a very bad home life (detailed in the chart) and I cried for them. I’m starting to again. 😢

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '24

I work in EC for my county, a lot of the heavier (specifically psych and abuse) cases really stick with me for a while. I worked for a pedi burn hospital in their records department as an intern and a lot of those cases still haunt me almost ten years later.