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Discharge summaries - Justme
Posted: Jan 11, 2015
Hello, I was typing the "Final Diagnoses" part a discharge summary the other day. The doctor began listing them by number and for the last number of 9, he said, "Jehovah's Witness." How is that a diagnosis?? Shouldn't those words be in the body of the report instead?? What is the correct way/formatting of handling that when it comes to religion??
Any help would be appreciated! 😃
If he said it,,,I type it - sm
[ In Reply To ..]But I don't care at this point, soooo..
Diagnoses - nn
[ In Reply To ..]Jehovah's Witness, therefore no transfusions or blood products to be given is probably what was meant.
It is ok; there for a reason. - MT2Coder
[ In Reply To ..]Physicians sometimes include things that don't look like usual diagnoses. As noted above, this one has a bearing on treatment. It might be the reason treatment was not accepted or the reason a surgical procedure was more complicated. Yes, it can be coded, depending on how it affected care or treatment.
jh - kkk
[ In Reply To ..]He numbered a diagnosis because JH will not accept blood transfusions, etc. and the physician needs to know this if the situation presented itself that the patient needed transfusion, so I would just type as he says.
Did you have a problem with the - post above?
[ In Reply To ..]Wondering why you felt the need to respond to it instead of to the OP.
Probably posted in the wrong place. sm - Anon
[ In Reply To ..]by mistake. Don't sweat the small stuff. I, and I think everyone else, knew she wasn't responding to your post but to the OP's.
because Jehovah Witnesses do not except blood products - pto
[ In Reply To ..]nm
simple answer - anon
[ In Reply To ..]I'm a firm believer in getting paid what you're worth.
The lower the earnings, the less I concern myself with this trivial stuff.
they typically will not accept blood products - no message
[ In Reply To ..]xx
That's just to turn attention to the fact that Jehovah's Witnesses - bittybot
[ In Reply To ..]There are certain medical things they don't want done, such as they don't want blood transfusions.
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