Brace yourselves; ICD 10 is coming

[bbbr]

This actually makes sense if you are working in an ER or a psychiatric facility. Abduction by aliens is a common claim by mentally ill patients.

Had an old coworker use just that excuse when he skipped work for a month (of account of being drunk off his arse and on the mother of all benders) and he was dragged in front a disciplinary hearing with his boss and the union defending him. They let him off with a verbal warning.

[wolfie]

In a technical sense, he could have been telling the truth. Your tag shows you as being from the U.S., so (using the immigration definition of the word) anyone other than a U.S. citizen would be an alien. That would include Johnny Walker and Jose Cuervo.

[Cecily]

I wonder if we have those codes in Canada? Then again, for any medical related need, we just swipe our card.