Average Income and Benefits. Certified medical coders earned average annual incomes of $25,920, according to the BLS. The lowest 10 percent made less than $21,680 per year. Eighty-five percent of these workers are employed full time, according to the BLS.
At about 18 to 20 weeks, it is possible to hear a baby's heartbeat with a stethoscope, states Health & Parenting. Typically a doctor uses a heart rate Doppler to listen to a fetal heartbeat, which can be heard much earlier than with the use of a stethoscope. Continue Reading.
Question: How early can a doctor hear the babyâs heartbeat? Answer: Before the age of radar and sonar as applied medically, it was the olâ stethoscope that was used most often to listen to the baby. Unfortunately this meant an audience of one â the one who sat between the earpieces of the stethoscope.