Re: Medical Word Book, ETC.

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On Wednesday, January 12, 2000 at 6:39 PM or thereabouts, Jayni wrote

the following about Medical Word Book, ETC.:

J> I've never seen the Medical Word Book, but since I consider you an

J> outstanding authority on many things, I would certainly trust your

J> conjectures about it.

Now there's a dangerous proposition ...

J> While I'm here . . . I've wanted to say thank you to you for a long

J> time -- and I'm sure many " listees " will join me in this sentiment.

J> I think many of us owe you a debt of gratitude for being so giving

J> of your time. You are so knowledgeable about so many things that

J> you amaze me. Even more amazing is your humility.

As for my time, it's called not having a life <g>, but I'm only happy

to share what I know, or can look up (which is more often the case),

because it gives me a chance to learn, as well ... I just worry

sometimes that I chatter on too much.

J> Based on the opinion you expressed about the Stedman's specialty

J> books, I'm going to give them another look the next time I'm at

J> Majors. To be very honest, I own only one specialty book from

J> Stedman's -- " Pathology and Lab Medicine Words, " second edition,

J> and I've been very disappointed in it. Perhaps it's the low point

J> of the series...

I think you might be right about it being the low-point ... I use the

small Sloan and Dusseau (sp?) Word Book in Pathology, partly because

it's the one my employer gave me, but also because it has proven to be

a good, quick, handy reference for a much broader area than merely

pathology and lab stuff ... no definitions, no fluff ... just lots o'

words, and usually is enough to verify that what I'm hearing is

correct and/or correctly spelled.

The rest of the Stedman's series is excellent, though, in my opinion

.... I've looked through the HPI series (which is pretty good) and the

Dorland's (which some may like but I find of little use) ... it all

comes down to preference, I suppose, but I've not been able to beat

the combo of Stedman's specialty books and a good search engine.

J> ... because I have only rarely found what I was looking for there.

J> I own two HPI specialty books -- " Radiology Imaging Words and

J> Phrases " and " Orthopedic/Neurology Words and Phrases " and I find

J> them worth their weight in gold. I think there's a real

J> possibility, however, that the fact that your research skills are

J> superior to mine makes the Stedman's books more useful to you --

J> maybe I just don't know how to use them.

Different series *do* tend to categorize/arrange their info in

different ways, yes ... since I started with Stedman's that could

explain some of my preference for them, to be sure ...

Chuck

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Hi everybody!!!

My two cents on the Sloane's Medical Word Book:

The BEST investment I ever made in reference materials were the Medical Word

Book, and the Surgical Word Book. Two of the best for finding things that

I've found. Listings are duplicated in many forms, so if you miss one part;

try the other and it's usually there!! The Surgical Word Book became

invaluable when I started doing hospital dictation (other than the ER

reports I was trained on). I've been fortunate in that I don't do too many

operative reports, but you always get the different valves, shunts,

procedure types, etc., that you would be clueless about if you'd never seen

them. I love my SEMD, but if I had to get rid of all but two of my

references, I'd toss them ALL except for the Medical Word Book and the

Surgical Word Book.

Now, for the comments on Chuck; I WHOLEHEARTEDLY agree!!! I've been on the

list since I came to work at home, and I can't tell you how many of the

e-mails I've filed away that have Chuck's name on them with SO MUCH valuable

info. Links, terminology, helpful hints, etc. However, one of my favorite

things is the " Random Though For the Day " . Okay, it's not transcription

related, but sometimes you've just gotta take a break and smile or this

business will drive you NUTS (if you're not there already)!!!!!

Take care everyone, have a good night. Oh, and Chuck if you're reading this:

GET BACK TO WORK!!!! LOL

Shel

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> I've never seen the Medical Word Book, >

> While I'm here . . . I've wanted to say thank you to you for a long

time -- and

> I'm sure many " listees " will join me in this sentiment. I think many of

us owe

> you a debt of gratitude for being so giving of your time. You are so

> knowledgeable about so many things that you amaze me. Even more amazing

is your

> humility.

>