It requires knowledge of anatomy and medical terminology, reading comprehension, and familiarity with thousands of different coding options.

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Along the way, she breaks down complex medical terminology and explains what's going on when the body undergoes treatment like chemotherapy.

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Financial terminology is different than medical and so forth.

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To understand the hierarchy of medical evidence, you need a bit of insight into how doctors perform these three types of studies and the terminology they use to describe results.

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