Can you tell my mom used to work for Hospice?
Automated disclaimer: This post was written more than 15 years ago and I may not have looked at it since.
Older posts may not align with who I am today and how I would think or write, and may have been written in reaction to a cultural context that no longer applies. Some of my high school or college posts are just embarrassing. However, I have left them public because I believe in keeping old web pages alive—and it's interesting to see how I've changed.
When I heard that Lee Jong-wook, esteemed head of the WHO, had died today of a blood clot, I couldn't help but wonder what his ICD code was. It's morbid, but oddly appropriate.
(If you're scratching your head right now, the ICD is a list maintained by the World Health Organization to classify every conceivable disease and/or cause of death. And if you were wondering, Jong-wook died of D68.9, or "coagulation defect, unspecified".)
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