Roy,

You certainly get naming rights. That does bring up a funny story or actually stories since it never changed. My former partner used to send kids for x-rays and, of course, you had to have a diagnosis.

Well, abdominal pain, would be written as "belly ache" and macrocephaly was written as "big head." Radiology would send some of them back as they had a difficult time coming up with ICD-9 codes.

Along those lines, at a Grand Rounds during my residency, we had a large contingent of providers including the pediatric surgeons. The talk was by a rather famous neurosurgeon on hydrocephalus. During the questions and answer session, one of the surgeons got up and asked a quetion in which in must have used the term "hydronephrosis" five to six times. It was an honest mistake, but it was still hard for the room to not burst out laughing.


Bert
Pediatrics
Brewer, Maine