For many of you Christmas is over and, you’re back to work. Admin piled up over christmas? Feeling resentful for all those forms, and the weird codes they make you put in them?

In this podcast I hope we can explain why that’s important, with 17th century death, the esoteria of reed codes, and why the WHO cares about spaceship accidents.

Consumption, flux, and dropsy: counting deaths in 17th century London

https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5014

Christmas guide to clinical coding

https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5209