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Would be medical-coding coder

Paul Turner
Jan 20, 2022

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Results are in —

One point shy —

Am not quite here or there codin’

So lay down the ego again

Parlay another three hundred eighty bucks and

Practice, multiply my text analyses

Won’t be any younger squinting,

Thumbing codebooks for answers

Is not a parlor-game recitation from Manhattan phone books

Is that an upper-right quadrant blockage,

A single-layer closure under 2 point 0 centimeters,

A peripheral anesthetized artery with a Greek name?

Results came in

Was one point shy

Phewy, not quite there

The medical coder meets the smirking proctologist.

Quite a stink, oh forget it.

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Paul Turner
Paul Turner

Written by Paul Turner

Voiceover actor, writer, singer, and poet.

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