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I am in the Medical Billing and Coding Program. For the past year or so I have been very indecisive on what I wanted to go back to school for. I started off going to school for sports medicine and decided it was just not for me. Every time I would push myself to apply for school I would always back out. My aunt is a coder at the local hospital here. She really encourage me to go back to school again if it was not for her I would probably still be sitting at home trying to figure out what I wanted to do. Medical Billing and Coding has many opportunities for you to better yourself that 's one reason I chose this programs. Since majority of my work will be done on a computer I want to learn as much as I can to better myself. I plan to improve my

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