2024-09-14 16:53:11
Falls, sutures and even crocodile bites… Everything has a health code. While the hospital does not lack doctors, they spend part of their time listing their practices, in a network that includes more than 16,000. A level of precision that borders on the absurd.
It is a dive into the world of Ubu, a new description of the French bureaucratic hell. In the hospital, when a patient presents to the emergency room, after a fall for example, the doctor must “code” the procedure performed. And those that are important to be precise: code W1300 if the falls occurred while practicing a sport, code W1301 if while participating in a game and leisure activities, W1302 if is when working for profit but W1303 if there is another form of work, W1304 for a fall that occurs while resting, sleeping or eating… And the codes are still different depending on whether the falls are caused by work house, a farm or on a road. The example is far from historical: each year two million falls among people over 65 are responsible for 10,000 deaths and more than 130,000 hospitalizations.
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