All i have to do is code... code....code and code.....

Lost words..... infact lost in the world of codes.......... ICD PDX, PPX, SDX, CPT, HCPCS, modifiers, V codes, E codes, up code, downcode, bundled codes blah blah blah..... Just four months into Medical coding..... Brain is like full of codes..... even though still make errors..... I wonder how the way of talking also changed..... Did Nursing for four years, but never felt that i am talking in medical language... But just finished four months in coding... language changed... When my mom tells that she is having fever and took medicine, what i am asking is Modifier TC or modifier 59.... or like technical component or professional component.... ( instead of asking doctor prescribed medicine or her own treatment??).... infact if i didnt ask also, its sure my mouth will open to ask... When i asked for an access card.... i asked to security desk..." may i have a code??"... shit... code or card???? which was like some nitrogen bomb exploded...laughing gas spread over there... When my friends ask me why i didnt ask about the payment to manager..... Instead of telling them " no one ask me to do that", i prefer to tell" if it is not documented... not done... and not coded" When my girl friend complains that she expected me to be there on her birth day... instead of saying "just dream it" i would say..." Never Assume in coding" When my Dad explains about his dreams about my future and earning a 6 digit salary and driving home a Toyota Prado.... I would say" Think like a coder" World of codes.... are with full of guidelines, cross checks, clinical references.... and of course multiple codes or wrong codes to give us negative scores.. Same way or life.... full of norms and guidelines and laws.... and bonds.... But to code a medical chart, we have Encoder, guidelines, websites, reference, CPT and ICD books and our supervisor.......... But to code our life... there is only one tool...just love..... and no supervisor....... just you....