Is there a way to do ''wildcard'' searches for medical terms on Google? nm
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Is there a way to do a ''wildcard'' search on Google for medical terms?nm
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5 minutes or 3 google searches sm
I am a champion googler, so I can generally find something in one or two searches. If it goes to 3, I know I am not going to find it. I can look at old reports and that is my source of last resort because of the time involved. I can search using my own MT number, pt and doctor which helps to narrow it down if I know I have looked for this before and it won't come to me.
By the minute...I think I'd do less looking up. If you get docked for QA or a bonus for fewer numbers (I get a bonus for fewer files to QA) that is different. I think you are being ripped off anyway, don't rip yourself off more.
I check no fewer than 5 websites or 5 google searches
often I go further than that, but I've been doing this a long time and get stumped a heckava lot less than I used to.
I basically search at least 5 different ways and check at least 5 websites before giving up. That's presumably after I've checked my own word books, of course.
No specific one that I can recall. Sorry. But I was running Google searches on the person,
and the same company kept popping up "run search online" everywhere! They had several options - $9.95 or $19.95 or a super-duper $49.95 one. I went with the cheapest one, and even that was worth it. Though the $49.95 would surely be tempting....
What to do if Word does not recognize your added medical terms - after updates? nm
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I would not; most of the time those type files, although not usually hard medical terms, take lots l
to type and are very difficult as it is hard to hear with background noise, different speakers, usually no macros, etc. I think they are worth more pay, not less. I also get paid by the word at 0.008 and had figured mine to be about 0.09/line as well in the past. stick with where you are.
A good website to search for medical terms, equipment, and drugs.
A good site for word help.
Look up hyperhydrosis on some medical sites or Google it. nm
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Actually, its not that good, try this one. Google it: Medical Transcription: What's in it for y
x
Do a Google search for free medical dictionary NM
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Another suggestion, google a specific state's dept. of medical or professional licensing.
I've got the Missouri Division for Professional Registration --> which you can look up MDs, DOs, RNs, PACs, LPNs, etc.
Kentucky has a board of medical licensure website with a search function. Indiana has a state professional licensing website.
In some states, like California and Texas, they separate the nurses and doctors, so there are two separate sites to search. If you have a nurse practitioner dictating, it's good to know.
I'm not at my own PC as I'm working in the office right now so I don't have access to all my different sites, so I'm trying to remember what all I have.
Let's see.... WebMD is a good one.
If I think of anymore, I'll post 'em! 
re rx word searches, did you know
I just discovered it, that drugs.com has (to right on main page) a special drug search link "for transcriptionists" ???? it not only works very well, BUT, it gives the usage of the med also -- it is very helpful. I used the wild card search and it brought up 1/2 dozen possibilities, one of which was what i was looking for. anyway, i am actually liking it better than the FDA site now...so thought i'd share!
It searches specific websites.
That's what makes it different and useful.
I say go with the online records searches - I had some "fishy" stuff I needed to check out.
Tried it on my own via the courts, court clerks, public records, etc., and it took me days and days of weeding, and found out a smidge of info. Went online and paid $9.95 at one of the common search sites, and found out PAYDIRT! So much info, and all turned out true, that I was amazed! Best $10 I ever spent! This was on a "relative" who was trying to pull a con on an elderly relative. The elderly relative still fell for the con, but my conscience is free, cause I warned her up front. Everything we feared has come to pass, but at least we tried to give warnings up front. Found out aliases, financial info as in legal charges for bad checks, property titles, and a whole bunch more! For $10 and all on one form! Then called the court clerks back and verified all info, but I had to have the info first - backwards, as usual!
Yep, google has it goin on... I really like the google earth...
Have you tried Google earth? You can type in any address, street, city, state, country, etc. and it will zoom in and show the area and then you can hit the + button and zoom right in and see the exact house, building, etc. that you are looking for.
Mainly Google; I google the known words in the phrase (sm)
That's my most frequent tactic if I don't find the word in my word books. I'll play with leaving certain words out and adding them in, in various combinations, to try to get a hit that has a word which sounds like my blank. If I get a hit, I'll Google WITH that word, and see what hits I get, and what their source is (i.e.,checking the sources out for reliability). When I say 5 sites or searches, I mean I don't often try more than 5 different combinations without a serious hit. If I get a hit, then I will spend a little more time checking that out before I give up.
If it's a drug name, I use RxList, or more frequently the Drugs.com website. Since they redid RxList, I haven't found one that has quite as good a wildcard search, but Drugs.com works okay most of the time.
If it's a place name (like when they give names of outlying outreach clinics and etc.) I'll use Mapquest and look up the city my hospital is in, then "pan out" and look at the outlying towns.
Hope that's what you're looking for. I do have bookmarks, but I find that even the ones I think I'll visit again, I waste more time doing that than with an intelligent google search. An example is the time I was looking for "banana bag." The only place I managed to find it with a degree of reliability was on a nurses' message board. I've found quite a bit sometimes on the various specialty message boards out there, but I think the quickest way to locate that is through a search engine rather than bookmarking each individual site and trying to figure out which ones to search for a particular term.
This is one of the terms...sm
...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.
There isn't really a need to take med terms now
I'm not sure there is a need to take med terms before starting MT school. It will be part of your course.
If you are thinking that it will help you decide if you'd like MT, it might not. MT isn't med terms. Med terms is something that you need to know to do MT, but taking med terms might not tell you if you'll enjoy MT. Med terms classes at community colleges are often very boring, frustrating, and impossible. Students' grades are often unnecessarily low because a lot of schools use that class to weed out students who want to take nursing and health information management. They might use a book that isn't very good, too. You don't want that making you think you'll hate MT or that you don't have the ability for it.
When we teach it, we LIKE teaching it and we don't try to flunk people out with it. :)
Do you type really well? Without thinking? Or, at least, do you type 45 wpm without hating it?
Do you love to read? Do you consider yourself to be a good reader? Do you like to write? Do you read and/or write for pleasure?
Does medical stuff fascinate you? Do you enjoy watching medical science shows on TV? The ones with the operations? Do you enjoy reading medical websites and books?
Are you very, very detail oriented? Does your work, whatever it is, need to be just so? Have you always wanted to do the very best work for others?
Those things are better indicators of success in MT than a med terms class.
If you'd like to get a feel for MT, try typing up some practice reports. There are sample operative reports over on www.mtdesk.com. Type them over and over, noting the way they seem to be following style rules in the way they're done. You can also go to www.merck.com and type up some material from chapters of the Merck Manual for physicians. There is a manual there for lay people, too. If you enjoy reading it, that's a good sign.
You might have other reasons for wanting to take those classes that I don't know about, but I did want you to know that it's probably not necessary or useful to take med terms in advance!
I would buy new a Dorland's Medical Dictionary, Stedmans Medical and Surgical Equipment...SM
and Tessier's The Surgical Word Book, 3rd edition. Books you could buy used I would say would be Stedman's Pathology and Lab Medicine and Cardiology/Pulmonary word book. These are all the books I use the most during my day. You could buy other speciality word books as you need them and could probably go used with those.
I wouldn't bother with buying a drug book, new editions come out every year and I just stick to the FDA website and RXList as my drug references.
Also FYI, not a book, but I use my Stedman's Electronic Medical Dictationary a lot. It's easier to open the program than it is to pick up a huge 30-pound dictionary.
Radiology terms A-Z
- 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
- 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
- pair production
- palliative
- perfusion studies
- photoelectric effect
- positron-emission tomography
- posteroanterior
- prone
- pyelogram
- 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
Links for terms
Try this link...it has almost anything you might need.
http://home.adelphia.net/~ktm58/links.html
surgical terms
Why don't you invest in ref. books? Trying to do this job without them is like trying to build a house without a hammer for goodness sake. I don't understand you people - always looking for top pay and taking the cheap way out to do your job without proper tools.
or in layman's terms
making sense out of nonsense that the doctor's dictate.
Here's one with a lot of terms/glossaries.
http://www.mtdesk.com/frame.php?frame=glossary
Psych terms...thank you!
I have put this on my favorites and will check it out further.....I appreciate your response:)
with what you are getting in terms of payment...
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.
You are confusing your terms.
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.
Opthamology Terms
I am testing for a company and I need a good website with Opthamology terminology?
Thanks
MT911 has some terms
and medications for oncology
Depends on the terms (sm)
There is all the world difference in saying your insurance is $500 a month (and therefore $250 a check for every 2-check month) versus saying it is $250 per check (no matter how many checks per month there is).
cancer terms
http://www.onelook.com
http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/omd/
layman's terms
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 :)
Thank you, Google God. My google icon is
x
or in lay people's terms, a cross between
As I go for terms, but glance back over
for headings and necessary elements, blanks.
psychology terms and tests
anyone know of a good website to get some basic psych. terms, tests, etc? I am soon to start a new psych account, and have done very few psych reports of any kind....thanks for any input!
Depending on you in terms of experience - sm
and knowledge, 5 minutes can take anywhere from 15-30 minutes. I can do anywhere from 12-20 minutes of dictation in an hour, but it depends on the Dr. dictating, ESL, difficulty of specialty, how much I have to look up (addresses generally), etc. When I first started it I would take me an hour to do 10 minutes of dictation. Hope this helps.
I don't know how to explain it - but it has more depth - in terms of
how far the key actually depresses, but I think it is an easy touch because my fingers fly on it. This is the original IBM keyboard. You know how on newer keyboards you are not even sure if you've hit the key at times - with this one it is easier to tell - I know that probably sounds crazy.
Need site for optometry terms. nm
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There are a few terms I am constantly misspelling...
I make a shortcut so when I type it my (wrong) way it is "expanded" to the correct spelling. 
I always try to leave on good terms, even if
I really dislike the company. Years and years ago I worked for a small local MTSO. I wanted to work at home and she wouldn't let me so I quit. I did tell her I would work PT at home only if she needed help and I knew she needed the help, but she was ticked at me and wouldn't give me any work. About 2 months later she called me practically begging me to work for her, and I did.
I have applied to a company and been offered a position but turned it down and then have gone back later and applied again, but I haven't actually worked for a company and then asked to go back.
It is frequently recommended here to not quit one job before you have time to test the waters on the other, just in case.
I would reapply or call them. The worst they can do is say no.
If you leave Co#1, do it on good terms so you
x
Typing test, Terms
They may give you a typing test or a medical terminology test. Just brush up on your skills and know your stuff, just like any job.
Check out this for psych terms
Lots of psych terms and phrases on this one.
http://medicaltranscriptionwordhelp.googlepages.com/psychiatricterminology
I am heavy by society's terms. I weigh
about 210 and am 5'6" tall. Every single female in my family tree for generations had the exact same body habitus. We are all German with big bone structures. I cannot lose weight - period. Been there, tried and done that save for gastric surgery. It is genetic in my case. Seriously, it really can be. I am totally comfortable with my body and how I look - I even love clothes, shoes, jewelry, until....I have to go to the doctors for anything - a hang nail, and its because I'm -- OBESE -- you name it, a cough - its because of that. And THAT makes me MAD! My cholesterol is normal, I don't have high BP and am 50. I am what I am what I am, and am happy with it until the med profession makes me feel like pond scum. All my relatives also lived into their 80s and 90s, the old healthy as a horse body types. I am super strong and in shape. I guess you get the picture. I have no arthritis, either, or any of the normal problems of mid life. I also drink milk - I LOVE MILK. I would probably lose 10 pounds max if I eliminated milk, but then I feel sick and run down. Its been a long time until I did get happy and satisfied with my body structure, but I still honestly hate doctors for their bias. And sometimes it is bias.
I've heard it used in derogatory terms (sm)
Maybe it is not supposed to be derogatory, but it is very frequently used that way 'round these parts!
Does anyone know a good psych website with terms, ect?
Thanks.
Medical Transcription In The Era Of Electronic Medical Records
EMR has revolutionized the healthcare industry in recent times. Many experts felt that EMR & Voice Recognition would totally replace Medical Transcription - however; the industry soon realized that transcription has certain advantages over point & click charting and many physicians preferred to dictate notes rather than document the data at the point of care themselves.
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
PS this was leaving on "bad terms".. i wouldnt have done that if i was just quitting because i
I wouldn't have acted that way if it was my choice to leave. they gave me no choice. grrr im still so frustrated!!! :(
I understand, but we have mutual respect in this household. He's right in terms of income, sm
and since he pays the majority of the bills, he knows what I need to bring home in order to live comfortably, etc.
On the other hand, he's excited for me in this new endeavor.
I just have to pray that I have the skills and knowledge to do this since this company has placed SO much confidence in me. It is just the biggest blessing ever.
Thank you for your response!
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