A little Affliction cleanup

I reduced the overall data set for the . Frankly, portions of the database were overwhelming results that made little sense given the purpose of the generation system. I purged everything related to Cause and Supplemental Classification since that is perhaps a different form of the generator. Additionally, I removed all the pregnancy/child birth results. I feel they are far too limiting in nature for the general purpose.

Mostly, I just want wounds or diseases. The eliminated elements are not forsaken they just are off limits for the current approach. That data set has so many possibilities it may spawn independent facets down the roads. I must stare at it some more to conjure up ideas.

Afflictions/Diseases/Wounds

Afflictions, diseases and injuries. I’ve long wanted to produce a generator for those ideas and now I have. The results are based off the codes your doctor uses to categorize the problem. Not all are interesting. I’m finding that I like producing at least 5-10 results to down select what afflicts my person of interest.

Give it a try

Diseases

Sometimes you grab the wrong data set. Well, I do when exploring odd things available from government agencies. I thought I had a full set of diagnostic codes for injuries and diseases. Turns out, it’s a subset of the ICD focused on diseases only. I quit parsing the data. It would make a nice random table of some sorts but isn’t quite what I need.

Disease Listing by Category

Here’s what I managed. The full data is available from the U.S. CDC.