hello everyone. I wanted to quickly if anyone had any tutorials/resources on how to efficiently take notes in the codebooks that help with test-taking, or everyday use. espeically when it comes to guidelines.
I'm doing my cpc practice study guide and I feel like I don't know anything, especially with CPT. I really wish I hadn't wasted a year learning this stuff because of how awful the job market is, I don't even know how to garner experience. And I don't have the patience with this stuff, I get so incredibly livid when I look at a patient case report that's an entire page long and I get literally every single code completely wrong becuase of tiny little details, meaning I have to then go back and re-read and correct everything and still come out of it barely understanding what I did wrong.
I got so angry I started crying yesterday because I keep messing up my CPT codes, especially radiology, path/lab, and E/M. I felt like just completely losing my shit and throwing all of my books in the trash, because explanations in the study guide aren't extensive enough for me to understand the why's, not just the how's. Or maybe I just didn't pay enough attention in the course and I've totally fucked myself, idk. I'm 25 years old and I feel like I've totally wasted a year of my fucking life dilly-dallying with something I can't grasp.
Are any other up-and-coming coders struggling like this, is this normal?