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Stedman's Surgery Words: Includes Anatomy, Anesthesia & Pain Management

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An essential reference book for the transcriptionist, proofer, auditor or anyone who reviews dictated surgical reports on a regular basis. As with all of Stedman's books, this speciality specific volume contains the correct spelling of surgical words listed in alphabetical order. In the back of the book, it contains wonderful pictures of anatomic positions, patient positions, types of anesthesia and Dermatones. There is a pain glossary, example op reports and a listing of drugs by indication. A must-have reference!

In reading the other two reviews of this book, I am dismayed. I am also somewhat surprised given the usefulness of other Steadman's publications. This particular book has so few surgical words that I look up that I no longer even bother. It is more frustrating and a waste of time than helpful. I hate to say this, but it is my experience.

I'm a huge fan of the Stedman's books, as they collect a tremendous amount of terminology under each of several specialized areas for their various books. A medical transcriptionist must have such books, and I have found in three-plus years that the Stedman's approach is vastly superior to having a single volume with all terms lumped together.

However, with the Surgery book I find that the terms I need to look up are usually found under the other specialty headings. For instance, Nissen fundoplication is a GI procedure that is found in the GI/GU book; I don't need to look in the Surgery book to find that. There have been some examples when I need to hunt down a word specific to surgery in general, and I cannot find it in a different book; however, that is unusual.

Still, there's no denying the superiority of the Stedman's approach to medical word books, and no denying that this is another exhaustive collection of words and phrases necessary to medical transcription and related fields of medical authorship etc.