Squirrel bite? There's a code for that

If you get hurt in a close encounter with a sea lion, injured at the library or burned when your water skis catch on fire for the second time, you are now in luck. Before today your doctor had no way to code for these specific injuries (W56.19XA, Y92.241 and V91.07XD, respectively), but now these unusual circumstances -- along with over 137,000 new classified ways to get injured, sick or die -- will be represented in the way the medical system records what ails you.