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How about condition? Doesn't have much of a ring to it, does it.? We will never change the ICD (is it still 9?) coders are hard to train. For a long time MDs did not learn how to use those codes, but the hospitals had to force them to learn them. No one likes them, they leave no room for nuances, diseases/ syndromes/ conditions or whatnot all have nuances. Sure can't code them. Nita Dennis Greene wrote: > Ok -Own up - Who did it? > > Who allowed that Disease word into the language. Just because people happen > to have a particular kind of unhealthy condition of body doesn't mean we > have to go giving that set of circumstances a name. Especially such a > nasty, elitist one. Syndrome has such a nice ring to it - but lets check > it out first - hum - ah here it is : > > Syndrome: Concurrent symptoms in................AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! > > **************************************************************************** > Syndrome: Concurrent symptoms in disease; characteristic combination of > opinion, behaviour, etc. > > Disease: Unhealthy condition of body, mind, plant, or some part thereof, > illness, sickness; particular kind of this with special symptoms or > location. > > Source: "The Concise Oxford Dictionary" > **************************************************************************** > ** > > Dennis > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Dennis Greene 48/11 > [log in to unmask] > http://members.networx.net.au/~dennisg/ > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++