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The Health Reference Series is a valuable source of health information for the general reader, including patients, families, and caregivers. The Health Reference Series Cumulative Index 1999 covers the first 42 volumes in the series (published 1990-1998). While each volume contains its own index, many conditions are covered in more than one volume.This Cumulative Index makes the series even more useful by enabling users to find all of the volumes in which a particular subject is treated.

Included in the volume are a subject index, name index, organization index, and publication index, along with a master list of acronyms and abbreviations. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Outstanding reference for the Medical Secretary/Office Mgr
I have had this book, and it's previous editions, since 1985 and have used it constantly since then.It is an outstanding tool for transcribing medical dictation of almost any kind.It's "cross-referencing" of phrases and sound-alike words makes it especially useful.It's only shortcoming is that it lacks a lot of specialized words and phrases for specific fields of medicine; for example, it does not have terms used by Pathologists.Adding this would enhance it's already outstanding value.

The edition I have is the 2nd edition from 1988, and I have not been able to find newer edition.Hopefully, new one is on the way! ... Read more

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"This work consists of a listing of basic reference sources in the field of medicine and allied health and a thesaurus-index providing quick access to the cited sources. . . . Recommended for medical and health sciences libraries." Choice ... Read more

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New edition of a comprehensive desk reference for medical transcriptionists. Thumb-indexed. Previous edition 1989. DNLM: Nomenclature. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (8)

Excellent reference book
I work with four other transcriptionists for a group of neurologists, and this book has been used quite a bit (there is tape holding the binding together).The Stedman Word books are also excellent, but if you are looking for a phrase, more times than not, you will find it in this book.For instance, the doctor dictated "wall motion abnormality". None of us ever heard of this before, but I was able to find it in this book.I highly recommend it, and I hope to soon be able to get the new 2004 edition.

Good for a start, but an MT needs more
There is much help here for the medical transcriptionist, but based on my experience I'd expect this is of more help to those only needing general help and not specific, detailed, intense assistance in deciphering the ever-changing world of medical terminology.The volume is the size of a good, stout English dictionary, and contains well over 1000 pages of words and phrases that the MT must know, but I can't tell you how many times I've been frustrated by searching for a term in this book only to find that I need to instead turn to a Stedman's specialty book (GI/GU, Orthopedics, Oncology, etc.) and find it there after a fruitless search of the MPI.There are a handful of instances it's worked the other way around, but in my three-plus years as an MT I've learned that I'll rarely find help here and that I should always go to Stedman's first.

HOWEVER, having said that, not everyone is able to invest a few hundred dollars in a set of Stedman's medical word books.While "you get what you pay for" is definitely true in this case, if you're in a situation where you have experienced co-workers who can help with the more specialized phrases you won't find here, this may suffice.It's not bad by any stretch, but if you need to work independently, this is insufficient.

An Excellent Medical Transcription Reference
Being in the medical transcription field having to look up new words and decipher dialects, this is one book every transcriptionist should have.To look up a word by disease and/or symptom is a lot faster than a flashlight without batteries in the dark!I highly recommend this book to medical transcriptionists whether a beginner, intermediate or experienced one.

Medical Phrase Index
This latest revision - 4th edition (10/15/01) is even easier to use and more comprehensive (250,000+ entries) than previously.This is truly THE medical phrase resource.Nothing else comes close!We use it dozens of times a day.

Required MT resource
When one hears one word in a phrase but is not sure of others, this resource is invaluable.Of all my resources for medical transcription, this is one of the few I use every day.Can't live without it. ... Read more