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Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions

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This book contains so much needed information for anyone who wants to know anything about the human body. It has a world of knowledge, starting from the most simple words to the most complexed diseases. I am a nursing student and I found it to be extremely helpful, easy to read and use. Its a wonderful book all around. I love it and you will too.

I recently started classes to earn a degree in medical transcription. My instructor for Medical Transcription 1 recommended this dictionary and told us it's required for a class I'll be taking next semester. So I figured I would invest the money now. I also had a reference test today and wanted to get my own medical dictionary so I wouldn't have to fight everyone else for the ones in the class room. I also noticed that most of the dictionaries in the class room are out of date. I wanted something that was up to date. I found this dictionary to be incredible helpful and user friendly. There is so much information here. It is easily accessable and well organized. For the test, the instructor read the word or term orally and then we had to look up the real spelling and definition. There were twelve terms on the test and I found 10 very quickly and easily in this dictionary. I am glad I decided to purchase this dictionary. I looked at a couple of other medical dictionaries and I was the most impressed with this one.

If I had one complaint, it would be the incredibly graphic and disgusting pictures of diseases. They are full color pictures and don't leave much to the imagination. But I've also noticed that is pretty typical of a medical dictionary. I didn't realize that before and it caught me a little off guard at first.

I would highly recommend this dictionary to anyone who is going into a field such as nursing or medical transcription. I know that this will prove to be an invaluable resource when I actually begin my work as a medical transcriptionist.

I love dictionaries and have several. I preferred Mosby's over Lippincott's for the same reason I like most Mosby books, the layout and text is so much easier to read. There are lots of pictures in color and the index tabs are useful in finding your subject quickly. The CD in the back of book has a useful spell checker. I sold my red version of this dictionary so I could have this blue version. When a clinical instructor say's the clasical line "go look it up" I'll find it faster in a clinical setting and when I'm working on a careplan my spell check will speed up the process.

This book has everything a person could want and then some. It has conditions, diseases, injuries, tests, health, anatomy, ect. Everything listed in here is described in the simplest detail that any adult can understand.

There are an ample amount of color photographs and drawings throughout. WARNING - A few photographs may be a bit much for some people to handle. Some diseases and conditions can look downright disgusting to more sensitive readers.

It is thumb tabbed for easy navigation throughout the alphabet. That makes for a great time saver and ease of use as well.

This book is a tremendous resource for nursing school. Even if it is not required, I fully recommend it's purchase.

I absolutely love this dictionary. It's easy to read the definitions and very well written. I use it constantly while I'm studying to look up certain words or diseases/disorders to help me understand topics better. I recommend this for anyone in a medical career.

I bought this Dictionary for my daughter who is studying Nursing and she just told me THANKS MOM because this book will lead me to a better way of understanding terms and subjets that with out it will be impossible.

This dictionary is like the "Mother of books" to everyone who will want to be more prepared for the professional nursing enviroment.

Thanks to Amazon too for having this type of tools available to anyone!

I like this mosby book for reference. It's very reliable and informative. Helps me in my hospital job.

I am a physical therapy graduate student, and I have used this book extensively since I purchased it. It is the best medical dictionary I have ever used, and it is full of great color pictures. Absolutely, this book is a must have if you are in a medical profession.

This is a fantastic reference book both for medical professionals and allied health professionals - it's easy to use and great detailed pictures!

the book that i ordered came in very fast! The condition was BRAND NEW, more than what i had expected since i paid such low price for it. Even came with the CD too! I have not had chance to use this book, but i did going through couple pages to see how the materials are present inside, seems to be very user-friendly! Only one thing is that some of the pictures that are used are DISGUSTING looking. But hey, what do you expect? Anyways, happy with the purchase.