Word: specializing
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Medical billing, for both hospitals and doctors, is accomplished via a system of codes, which is already so complicated that there are special schools for it, granting degrees not just in coding but in special branches of coding. Coding boils down to assigning specific numbers to every problem (diagnosis codes) and other numbers to every treatment (treatment codes). Though the lists, in my field of orthopedics anyway, are woefully inadequate to capture how we actually think about or treat patients, they are still ponderous and complex. From common cold to brain tumor, open heart surgery to handing over...
...Everybody did their job [last weekend],” Stone said. “We got scoring from multiple lines, and special teams were very good, so hopefully we can continue that. The main thing is that we continue to play our game...
...Having divvied out the perennial “hot spots” in the world to the members of an A-list of special envoys, Hillary Clinton seems to be putting her own imprint and betting her opportunity for an enduring legacy on the China-climate change connection. Watch for this issue to have great prominence for her in the months and years to come...
...admissions committee selects students by rating each applicant on a scale of one to four in each of four categories: leadership, commitment to public service, academics, and a fourth category that includes special talent, extraordinary background, and diversity...
...arrest and conviction of Sierra Leone's warlords - in a joint U.N.-Sierra Leonean process - which has not restarted that war, as some had feared it would. Sierra Leone "indicates how important it is to have justice if you are going to have peace," the prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone told TIME when the last three militia leaders were convicted last week. But opponents argue that peace often requires amnesty more than it does justice and point to how the 2005 indictment of Ugandan militia leader Joseph Kony led him to spurn peace talks. That militia...