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Browsing medical diagnosis codes... https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/ICD10/2016-ICD-10-CM-and... Some of the most mildly interesting: V9543XD Spacecraft collision injuring occupant, subsequent encounter W5602XD Struck by dolphin, subsequent encounter X35XXXD Volcanic eruption, subsequent encounter X52XXXD Prolonged stay in weightless environment, subsequent encounter Y0881XD Assault by crashing of aircraft, subseq…

Reminds me of some of NJ's (and other's, I imagine) state laws:

> 39:4–128.4 Improper passing of frozen dessert truck

Your honor, those desserts weren't frozen! (Jury gasps)

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Browsing medical diagnosis codes... https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/ICD10/2016-ICD-10-CM-and... Some of the most mildly interesting: V9543XD Spacecraft collision injuring occupant, subsequent encounter W5602XD Struck by dolphin, subsequent encounter X35XXXD Volcanic eruption, subsequent encounter X52XXXD Prolonged stay in weightless environment, subsequent encounter Y0881XD Assault by crashing of aircraft, subseq…

Interestingly, I heard about that a couple of months ago going to a med conference and listening to Atul Butte. Here is the longer narrative of the taxonomic structure of death causes:

https://youtu.be/pY5_KSMlAUQ?t=105

(By the way, the rest of Atul's talk is also quite interesting, too, for people who are looking for building the next open-source bio/medical-informatics company in their garage.)

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Browsing medical diagnosis codes... https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/ICD10/2016-ICD-10-CM-and... Some of the most mildly interesting: V9543XD Spacecraft collision injuring occupant, subsequent encounter W5602XD Struck by dolphin, subsequent encounter X35XXXD Volcanic eruption, subsequent encounter X52XXXD Prolonged stay in weightless environment, subsequent encounter Y0881XD Assault by crashing of aircraft, subseq…

I don't even... why in the world would it be important for a doctor to differentiate being struck by a dolphin or struck by orca (side note: orcas are dolphins!).

Probably because orcas are so much larger.

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http://www.27bslash6.com/ - lots of crazy stories from David Thorne Some particular good ones are: http://www.27bslash6.com/f26a.html http://www.27bslash6.com/arguments.html http://www.27bslash6.com/covers.html

Love this site. This one: http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html , makes me giggle audibly every time...

I completely forgot about that one! It may very well be the best. :)

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Encyclopedic, opinionated, humorous, and even quantitative guide to 20th century pop and rock, from the point of view of a Russian Linguist [1] who thinks The Beatles, The Who, The Rolling Stones, and Bob Dylan have never been topped:

http://starling.rinet.ru/music/index.htm

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgiy_Starostin

Even if you disagree with him on details, if you have similar taste, you can basically look up any album and see which songs might be hidden gems. It's also amusing to read his take on just when a particular band began to decline in quality.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've gotta believe that some dolphin injuries are more severe than some orca injuries. At any rate, once the code describes a situation so specific that it may only classify a few injuries a year, what possible benefit may come from that?

Am I missing a table since I can find the orca thing, but it doesn't have a listing for bear. Please tell me bears are a bigger danger than orcas? // holy crud, the comment section is now a rabbit hole - good job karim

Yeah, bears are not specifically mentioned. You'd have to file it by W55.8: contact with other mammal.

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Browsing medical diagnosis codes... https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/ICD10/2016-ICD-10-CM-and... Some of the most mildly interesting: V9543XD Spacecraft collision injuring occupant, subsequent encounter W5602XD Struck by dolphin, subsequent encounter X35XXXD Volcanic eruption, subsequent encounter X52XXXD Prolonged stay in weightless environment, subsequent encounter Y0881XD Assault by crashing of aircraft, subseq…

Interesting this should pop up, a few weekends ago I put together a simple quick search for ICD-10 codes (and Radlex, a radiology specific lexicon) at http://lex.orionmd.com. I'm sure there are other more powerful tools out there, but feel free to play around!
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