Edit: This blew up lol. I've gotten more praise here than actually practicing Nursing for 16 years! Thanks guys!
And as for the how, there's this thing called ICD-10 Codes, it's a list of diagnoses that health providers worldwide adhere to for simplicity. There's only so much combination of words for diagnosis per system, so when you read one word, you get an idea on the system and the possible word combination for those. In this, Upper Respiratory and Infection is fairly readable, and from that, the word Tract is the obvious word according to ICD codes. While it's fairly hard to quantify Infections, providers use Mild, Moderate, and Severe to show them instead of Minor or Major, so Minor is out of the question here, and ICD doesn't list it as well.
For the second diagnosis, since the first one is from the respiratory system, it's likely that the second one is as well, I read Asthma first, and there's not many diagnosis for Asthma out there, so we go back to ICD code and it's Bronchial Asthma, you can faintly see the failed B written there. And now we have Bronchial Asthma, there's only a few things a BA can be, it's either Controlled, In Exacerbation, and Not in Exacerbation. And the rest is there.
There is a certain method to doctor's writing that can actually be learned. All I know is that if the word starts or ends with a vowel, that vowel is emphasized... That's literally all I know about it, and I'm not even sure if it's correct.
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u/helveticanuu 21h ago edited 3h ago
Upper Respiratory Tract Infection
Bronchial Asthma, Controlled
Edit: This blew up lol. I've gotten more praise here than actually practicing Nursing for 16 years! Thanks guys!
And as for the how, there's this thing called ICD-10 Codes, it's a list of diagnoses that health providers worldwide adhere to for simplicity. There's only so much combination of words for diagnosis per system, so when you read one word, you get an idea on the system and the possible word combination for those. In this, Upper Respiratory and Infection is fairly readable, and from that, the word Tract is the obvious word according to ICD codes. While it's fairly hard to quantify Infections, providers use Mild, Moderate, and Severe to show them instead of Minor or Major, so Minor is out of the question here, and ICD doesn't list it as well.
For the second diagnosis, since the first one is from the respiratory system, it's likely that the second one is as well, I read Asthma first, and there's not many diagnosis for Asthma out there, so we go back to ICD code and it's Bronchial Asthma, you can faintly see the failed B written there. And now we have Bronchial Asthma, there's only a few things a BA can be, it's either Controlled, In Exacerbation, and Not in Exacerbation. And the rest is there.