What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type?
That story of how the doctors just dismissed her pain as delusion is terrifying. Doctors are supposed to be people of science, but one of the very fundamentals of science is to acknowledge that you don&#x27;t know everything, that your current knowledge is just a theory that can be improved upon. I find there&#x27;s a tendency among doctors to think they know every possible disease, and if someone comes along with one that doesn&#x27;t fit in their system, they write it off as psychosomatic. They probably get their fair share of actual hypochondriacs, but I&#x27;ll wager that more than half of the people who are dismissed this way, are actually suffering from a real, but rare or understudied illness.