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Electronic Drug Book 2003!

Posted By: jss on 2005-11-30
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Does anyone know if the Quick Look Electronic Drug Book 2003 is compatible with XP?  Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.


TIA




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Quick Look Drug Book (book & CD/ROM)..sm..

Does anyone use both.  I'm definitely getting the CD/ROM and am debating about buying both.  I don't see any reason to have both but there could be something I don't know. 


I noticed CD/ROMs are on backorder but they're selling downloadable versions.  I can handle that.


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The company I recently began working for asked me to purchase the Quick Look Drug Book as a reference tool, as they use it.  So, I got one...bought it used online so it wasn't that expensive, and I was needing a new drug reference book anyway.



I am just not impressed with this book.  While it does have very useful information in it, I find it is not laid out in the most convenient manner.  The drugs are listed alphabetically by the generic name.  So, what if the doc says the brand name of a drug?  How am I to use this book to look up the spelling, etc. of a brand name drug if I don't know the generic name of the drug so I can find it???  I have hardly used this book at all since I got it....I still go online to look up meds.  I feel like I wasted my money.



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Could you give me some advice on drug reference books? Do you recommend people wait for the quick look drug book '08?  Or is there a site online to search for drug information?


I'm new here, and am still studying to be a MT, so I'd like a recommendation from someone who knows  :)


I hope I'm not asking a question already asked 100 times...


Thanks!
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What books you need will depend on the type of work you do.  If you only do clinic work, just something like Sloane's Medical Word book might be all you need, in addition to a drug book.  If you are just doing one specialist then a Stedman's book of that speciality would  probably be all you need in addition to the drug book. 


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Do you like it? I just received mine yesterday. It does not put a link on the Word  toolbar like the old one did. I called support and they downloaded a file for me to load and now it's on the toolbar, but now I get the message "QLDB.exe" not found.


I have uninstalled (like tech support said) and re-installed but still get the same message.


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