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BC Advantage - 2005 Issue 12

Jobs abound for medical coders

Two oversized flat-panel computer displays stand waiting for Pat Pilant. One feeds her an avalanche of hospital patient charts: hundreds of pages choked with obscure medical jargon, ambiguous abbreviations -- pure gibberish to the uninitiated. But for Pilant, a medical coding specialist, "it's like reading a mystery novel." Each case begins with a stricken patient. Doctors and nurses puzzle over symptoms, hazard a diagnosis and attempt treatments. Are they right? Will the treatment work? Pilant pours over each chart, some running to 300 pages or more. Entering a mental zone of concentration, she resolves conflicts, fills in gaps...

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