Great website for drug slang terms

Some of you might remember that I'm working for my BIL doing chemical dependency training videos (transcribing them).

Well, I came across a term that I'm unfamiliar with.  I did a websearch and found this website.  Thought others might find it helpful so decided to post it.

http://www.nicd.us/drugstreetandslangterms.html

Happy MT week!

Chickadee

• Great website for drug slang terms - Chickadee
  • Thanks so much for this link!!! sm - Very cool site
    • :o) You're welcome. Have a great day! NM - Chickadee
  • Thanks Chickadee! Cool site! - Amy
    • :) You're welcome! NM - Chickadee

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This site is an interesting collection of slang/acronyms/abbreviations doctors use among themselves.  DO NOT assume this to be a reference site, it is for amusement only!

Now sit back and laugh!

http://www.messybeast.com/dragonqueen/medical-acronyms.htm

But I have got to say that my entire family (father was in the biz) colored their hair with L'Oreal and lived until they were OLD...dad died at age 97 and colored his hair too until his late 80s  *l*

And then - there's this other thing in my mind - we all have to die from something - nobody who gets to be in the senior population is getting out of this life without a diagnosis of some kind, usually.  So, I'm going out looking fabulous....just as my mother did. 

But thanks for that terrific website - I bookmarked it....

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/drugsatfda/index.cfm

I use this website more than I use my Quick Look Drug Book!

This has been helpful to me.  I thought I'd share for those of you who haven't already discovered this website.

Hope it is helpful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponymous_medical_signs

Back in the day, over 20 years ago when I started transcribing, it was unheard of to transcribe slang in a report, but now you get your hand slapped if correct the slang.  Thanks AAMT for making it so acceptable.  Thank you AAMT for supporting outsourcing overseas. Thanks AAMT for making easier on those who taking our jobs away to not have know proper English.

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.

DTRs, TMs, etc.  Those are quite often mistyped also - no apostrophe needed!! 

...that seems to have changed. I always put "metacarpophalangeal" before, but almost every doc I transcribe for these days says, very clearly "metacarpal phalangeal." I put the hyphen in because the words should be connected and that is the only way I can do it without changing what the doctor says.

Your book may list "carpophalangeal" as a word, but I am a former x-ray tech and I can tell you that none of the carpal bones attach directly to the phalanges. There is a metacarpal between the carpal bones and the phalanges. If you will look at a hand x-ray, there is a good 2-3" or more (filled by the metacarpal) between the carpal bones and the proximal phalanx of each digit.

That's why you can't depend solely on "word books." If they don't have a definition, you cannot be sure they are correct.

• abduction
  
• activity
  
• adduction
  
• air-fluid level
  
• airborne radioactivity
  
• angiocardiogram
  
• anteroposterior
  
• arteriogram
  
• arthrogram
  
• atom
  
• atomic mass
  
• atomic mass unit
  
• atomic number
  
• attenuation

• betatron
  
• Becquerel (Bq)
  
• binding energy
  
• Bohler calcaneal angle
  
• brachytherapy
  
• build-up

• cardiothymic silhouette (on chest x-ray)
  
• cholangiogram
  
• cholecystogram
  
• cineradiography
  
• Compton effect
  
• computed tomography
  
• contrast studies
  
• curie

• decay constant
  
• dose

• echocardiography
  
• electron volt (eV)
  
• electrostatic field
  
• element
  
• eversion
  
• excited state
  
• exposure
  
• extension

• film badge
  
• flexion
  
• fluence, particle
  
• fluorescence
  
• fluoroscopy

• gamma camera
  
• genetically significant dose (GSD)
  
• gray (Gy)
  
• ground state

• half value layer
  
• half-life
  
• hysterosalpingogram

• in vitro
  
• in vivo
  
• interstitial therapy
  
• interventional radiology
  
• intracavitary therapy
  
• inversion
  
• ion
  
• ionization
  
• ionization
  
• ionizing radiation
  
• irradiation
  
• isobars
  
• isomers
  
• isotones
  
• isotope

• Kerley('s) [s/l curly] A, B, or C lines
  
• Kerma

• lateral decubitus
  
• lethal
  
• linear accelerator
  
• linear energy transfer (LET)
  
• lymphangiogram

• magnetic resonance imaging
  
• mass attenuation coefficient
  
• mass effect
  
• mass energy absorption coefficient
  
• mass stopping power
  
• megavoltage
  
• mucositis
  
• myelogram
  
• myelosuppression

• nuclear medicine
  
• nucleon
  
• nuclide
  
• oblique

• orthovoltage

• pair production
  
• palliative
  
• perfusion studies
  
• photoelectric effect
  
• positron-emission tomography
  
• posteroanterior
  
• prone
  
• pyelogram

• quality factor (Q)

• rad
  
• radiation
  
• radioactive contamination
  
• radioactive decay
  
• radioactive equilibrium
  
• radioimmunoassay
  
• radioisotope
  
• radiology
  
• radiolucent
  
• radionuclide
  
• radiopaque
  
• radiopharmaceutical
  
• radioresistant
  
• radiosensitive
  
• radiotherapy
  
• recumbent
  
• rem
  
• roentgen (R)
  
• roentgenology

• scintillation camera
  
• sestamibi
  
• SI
  
• Sievert (Sv)
  
• sonogram
  
• specific activity
  
• specific ionization
  
• stopping power
  
• supine

• teletherapy
  
• tenth-value layer (or thickness)
  
• therapeutic
  
• tomography
  
• tracer studies
  
• tram tracking (on chest x-ray)

• ultrasonography
  
• ultrasound
  
• uptake

• venogram
  
• ventilation studies

• xeroradiography

Then outsources like us are getting ripped off...

I barely make $5 for 8 hours.. you think that's fair. .. cause I sure *&%# don't.

Software is the computer interface that allows you to perform a certain task, in this case, FTP software allows your computer to connect to an FTP site. If you're looking for an FTP site that is secure, you will more than likely have to pay for it. You can try www.ftptogo.com, although it is not free, it is a good site.

I am testing for a company and I need a good website with Opthamology terminology?

Thanks

FTP is (very) basically a secure connection to the client's mainframe.  It is like your computer picking up a phone and dialing the employer's system.  Once you are connected the only thing you have to do it keep the window open and the connection should stay active.

FTP is faster than a connection through the internet because it makes your computer a part of the actual system, instead of just a satellite.  Think of it like a meeting: the internet is a group of people just standing around talking, anyone can just pass by and listen in and hear all or part of the conversation.  FTP is like a closed and sound-proof conference room where only those in the room can hear.  Yes, there are ways to breach the room, but they are much more difficult and, for most, too much of a pain to bother with. 

The client should give you information how to use their FTP, but to understand, learn DOS commands (remember that from the 80's?).  FTP is easy to learn but confusing if you don't understand DOS.  Beyond that I can't really help you without a set of instructions and a netmeeting :)