Stedman's Medical Abbreviations, Acronyms and Symbols, Fourth Edition offers quick, easy access to over 75,000 essential abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols for medical language specialists and medical, health, and nursing professionals. This thoroughly updated edition includes more than 7,500 new abbreviations, expansions, acronyms, and symbols and 14 appendices. "Do Not Use" abbreviations indicated by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices are highlighted, as are slang abbreviations. This Fourth Edition is also available as a CD-ROM or a downloadable file. See CD-ROMs listing for details.
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Stedman's Medical Abbreviations, Acronyms & Symbols:
Excellent reference for any medical transcriptionist! I've been doing transcription for many years and this book has been a wonderful addition to my reference books. The slang references outlined in red have been especially helpful, which were not available in an earlier edition. I agree with a previous reviewer in that getting updated versions is necessary.
Stedman Medical Abbrev:
This is an excellent reference book. It was highly recommended. It was also received quickly and in excellent conditon. Thanks Again!!
Another Stedman must have!:
If you are in the medical transcription field, you must have this book! Docs are always abbreviating things, and sometimes it can be hard to distinguish what they mean - especially for the newbie MT. It's nice to have a reference book to be able to look up the abbreviations and see if what you think it sounds like makes sense as to how it is related in the text. This was one of the first books I bought as a new MT 2 years ago, and I just purchased another one for my friend who is studying to be one. She... more info
Major asset to my business.:
I have a medical transcription service out of my home, and I could not do my job without this book. Everyone abbreviates these days. A necessity.
