Thank you all very much! I had the best laughs of the week today reading this thread. Maybe you all could wiggle your way into the hearts of Leno or Letterman during the writer's strike.
Too funny! But I wonder, is any of this ICD-9 discussion breaking the AC EULA covenant that the AMA's codes will not be discussed over the Internet?

Leslie who is still laughing

Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC

"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "