Medicine's Ten Greatest Discoveries

[Steven B. Harris]

In <35EDC466.B57EE251 at pacbell.net> dcroyal <droyaldc at pacbell.net>
writes: 

>Just one itty bitty correction.  Current Procedural Terminology is the
>work of the AMA not the FDA nor the HCFA nor the BNDD nor the DOJ nor
the
>NIH nor HHS. 

   Is that true???  I will have to do some checking.



>> And while the CPT's are far from perfect the ICDA9-CM  (that
>stands for 'current modification' and no wonder since the 'current
>modification' went to press 20 or so years ago and  has been
undergoing
>modification for 19 or so years) is a work only an attorney come
>politician could appreciate.
>
>Don Royal DC


   That's "attorney cum politician."  Note the Latin.  Look that phrase
up in a dictionary, and there will soon be a picture of Clinton. ;0

                                   Steve Harris, M.D.