More than 300,000 allied health practitioners—including medical technicians, nurses, CPT and ICD-9 coders, medical secretaries, receptionists, transcribers, physician’s office managers and billers, record analysts and clinical laboratory technicians—know the right medical term when it counts, thanks to… Quick Medical Terminology A Self-Teaching Guide/3rd Edition More than 300,000 people in medicine and medical-related industries used the first two editions of Quick Medical Terminology to expand their working medical vocabularies. Besides teaching you over 500 medical terms, it shows you how to recognize and use thousands of other words on the job. What makes this Self-Teaching Guide so successful is its unique word-building system that begins by familiarizing you with the Greek and Latin prefixes, suffixes, word roots and word forms that are the building blocks of nearly all modern medical terminology. And once you’ve mastered these building blocks and understand the simple logic behind how they are combined to form medical terms, the job of learning the hundreds of words you’ll need on the job is a piece of cake! Quick Medical Terminology, 3rd Edition is specially programmed to allow you to work at your own pace with prerequisites, objectives, and tests to check your progress. This 3rd Edition has been updated to include the latest techniques, terminology and advances in the field of medicine.
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Shirley Soltesz Steiner, RN, MS, is Principal Consultant for Health Information Training Systems, City Island, New York. A graduate of Boston and Pace universities, Ms. Steiner has worked with leading corporations and innovators in the training field, including AT&T, Media Medica, Inc., and MetroMedia. She brings more than 20 years experience to the design and development of self-instructional, classroom, and on-the-job training programs. Genevieve Love Smith was the Coordinator of Programming at Point Park College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Phyllis E. Davis was formerly Dean of Point Park College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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117 of 121 people found the following review helpful:
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A fast and easy way to learn medical terminology,
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This review is from: Quick Medical Terminology (Wiley Self-Teaching Guides) (Paperback)
Whether you want to understand what your doctor just told you, or you're considering a career in medicine, I would recommend this book for anyone wanting to learn medical terminology. Quick Medical Terminology will teach you to break down medical terms into parts so you can pronounce, spell, and define them. No previous knowledge of the medical profession is necessary. The format is simple. New words are listed at the beginning of each unit. Word definitions are short and easy to understand. Good examples are given for each term. There are blanks to complete throughout the text, two tests at the end of each unit, and final self tests at the end of the book. Answers for each question and the tests are also provided, so you can check your work. A great way to learn over 500 medical terms at your own pace!
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A decent intoductory book on basic medical terminology,
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This is a decent introductory book (for lay people) on basic medical terminology. Such things are helpful if you do any significant amount of reading on the medical or health professions, or if you're in regular contact with (or employment of) medical professionals in a hospital or doctor's office ... or even if you just want to learn the lingo and become a more educated and medically saavy consumer. Not a particularly deep book, mind you, but it does cover some of the essentials.
However, I should point out that I read this book 10+ years ago, and the informational landscape has changed a lot since then. Nowadays, it's actually cheaper, faster, and yeilds better results, to simply google the terms and conditions of interest directly on the internet, rather than buying a reading a book like this.
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We used this book during my nursing school 12 years ago. I loaned it out & never got it back. Happened to run onto it on Amazon & am thrilled to have it back. It is a very helpful book & along the way you forget & need to refresh!!
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