A pharmaceutical reference providing readers with access to the correct spelling and capitalization of drug names, their primary designated uses, and usual methods of administration. It describes each drug's uses, forms, generic names and active ingredients, and alerts readers to sound-alike drugs with easy-to-spot icons. Drugs pending approval, as well as recently discontinued drugs which may still appear in dictation are also featured. This edition has been updated and includes 500 new listings of medicinal herbs. It also identifies drug classes, including: quinolones, a class of antibiotics; lazeroids, a class of free-radical scavengers; and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, a class of antidepressants/antipsychotics. The book also features a list of "street drug slang" with cross references to the proper drug name.
Ellen Drake, CMT, is coauthor of the Saunders Pharmaceutical Word Book and author of the Sloane Medical Word Book. She is a development editor for Health Professions Institute (HPI) in Modesto, CA, where she helped develop the two most highly acclaimed medical transcription training programs: The SUM Program for Medical Transcription Training and Medical Transcription Fundamentals and Practice. She has contributed to several textbooks and written dozens of articles for Perspectives on the Medical Transcription Profession. Ellen is also an editorial consultant and contributor to the Dorland's Medical Speller and Taber's Medical Dictionary. She has given dozens of presentations to audiences of medical transcription (MT) practitioners and educators in many venues. Ellen worked as an MT in diverse settings, owned an MT service, and taught medical transcription at a community college and online. She also has a degree in Education (English) and taught high school English for 5 years.
Ellen enjoys writing (of course!), being with her large family and many friends, spoiling her three cats-Aristotle, Nefertiti, and Chat Noire-(don't worry, their names are not used as passwords!), and working in her yard and garden. In 2008, Ellen went on 9000-mile cross-country road trip alone and lived to tell about it.
