So I'm driving into work one morning when I see an air ambulance helicopter landing. I'd say, whatever traumatically injured patient is in that air ambulance being rushed in for urgent medical care has to be more exciting than the hospital admission for a chief complaint of
I can't Twitter like I used to.
Yes folks. I think that is the first ever hospital admitted case of the Twitter tremors. Any ideas on what the ICD 9 medical code would be for that one (go here where I explain ICD and CPT codes).
God help me if a Facebook addict in withdrawal walks through those ER doors. It would probably be the guy in this video who Twittered and Facebooked at the alter of his wedding.
I think that would be worse than a patient faking a seizure in the ER.
If you're addicted to social media and want to catch all my posts on the go, you have options. You can either control self delete yourself and go live life, or you can:
Just make sure you don't do it while driving, or you may end up as a patient in that air ambulance helicopter landing at Happy's hospital. Come to think it, maybe the patient in that air ambulance helicopter was a Happy fan catching up on Mrs Happy's home doppler fetal heart tone monitoring. If you're addicted to social media and want to catch all my posts on the go, you have options. You can either control self delete yourself and go live life, or you can:
- Join my Twitter page
- Become a fan of my Facebook page
- Join my RSS feed
In which case, all I gotta say is, sorry 'bout that. I might be seeing you as a 99233 to follow up on your uncontrolled diabetes. Because you know. that's what a hospitalist does.


