And get 2 new drug books every year when updated in Jan/Feb. nm

• Query: How many have reference books and how many? - MSMT
  • Reference books - SCMT
  • Zero - Rad MT
    • Info. found on the internet isn't always correct, - and in fact frequently not. nm
  • have 18. expand library based on your need, - sm
  • 30+ books. nm - Msla MT
  • Two: Dorlands and The Surgical Word Book -- SM - The Internet MT
    • Same here. Haven't opened a book sm - jj
  • About 23. Some I haven't used in years, some I - me
  • I have 25-30 books. (nm) - Yup
  • Lots of 'em, but use a Lab Words, Sted's Ortho/Rehab Words, & Tessier's Surgical Words most - all. Medical Phrase Index often as a newbie. nm
    • And get 2 new drug books every year when updated in Jan/Feb. nm - Love my books!

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Quick Look is good if you are not sure of the medication name because you can look it up by disease or condition plus it has lots of extras such as lab values, chemotherapy regimens, etc. The drawback is everything is listed by generic and if you are looking for detailed information (dosages, etc.) and only have the brand name, you are referred to another page for the generic that has the details, wasting typing time. This is why I use Saunders Pharmaceutical Word Book most of the time. Saunders is great for a quick look-up, not having to jump around pages between generic and brand names. I use both and try to get the lastest copies every couple of years, they are the two best in my opinon and I cannot live without them.

There is also a great website, http://www.edruginfo.com/dudrughome.htm, with new drugs that may not be in the books yet.

The net is ///far/// more useful than outdated books or electronic word products, for MTs with any kind of experience, that is. @_@  If you're a student or new, you do need a good drug book.  Drake & Drake is the best; there will be an electronic version next year.

Try the link below for Drugs @ FDA.  That's one of the essential links on my IE toolbar.  (I know; every time you use IE, god kills a kitten, but w/some work platforms, I have to use it.)  You can search generic/brand names using ^*^any 3 consecutive characters^*^ in the name.  Try doing that with Quick Look, which only lets you wildcard the beginning OR the end of the word or individual characters.  Nothing's more up to date than the FDA!

Using AutoHotKey or Active Words plus the newest download of Google Toolbar (google pones!), you can set up a quick little app to automatically highlight the last word you typed and send a search without leaving your document.

MT references were essential in the "old days" [meaning pre-2000?] when one had to really know how to use a search engine to find med equipment or drugs.  Now every equip and drug mfgr has a website.  Most of the new drugs have their own websites.  Google's awesome ability to figure out what one wants from a phonetic spelling has officially killed the MT word reference publishing industry.

have Stedman's Medical Dictationary on CD and I do use it quite a bit, but that's more because the actual print dictionary is so darn heavy to pick up and look a word up!

Okay...sock it to me..when I was even newer than I am now, I wrote "drug alluding stent."  QA sent a correction saying "drug eluding stent."  NOW, I see on Google, "drug eluting stent."  SOoooo, which is it, or are they both correct?  Thanks ahead of time.

Hi -

First time ever on this board and I've been an MT for 15 years.  Worked for Healthscribe before Spheris took over (3 years) and now work for another company...but looking elsewhere.  Can anyone give me their honest opinions about CyMed?  I just tested with them, extremely easy to me, but I HATE changing job.  However, job I have now....isn't paying the bills at all, waiting for work constantly, they are going to start off-shoring, etc.  I'm single, have 1 child, lost a great job last year working by the hour (outside of home), but lost the job (don't even ask). I loved it, but got screwed. Now I'm just depressed, disgusted, broke, etc., and very stressed and worried. I'm going to have to get out of transcription or something.  This just isn't working and I seriously would appreciate any good or bad.   I talked to a man there for over an hour yesterday.  He was extremely patient and took his time explaining everything I asked. 

Thanks in advance everyone!   

I have gone recently for a medical problem and I am amazed how they have everything networked to different departments.

So I didn't like watching my wages go down and I now work for specialists, but it was such a nice hospital visit.  I was in and out of there in no time with no waiting.  It was an amazing system.  And this is a large acute care hospital!  I was absolutely amazed.

to pay him a cool 1 million dollars.  You can check this out at the Medquist website.   I think the CFO makes $350,000 a year, and the head of IT makes $250.000 a year.

P.S.  This does not include the perks, like expense account, car allowance, sign-on bonus, etc.