Can anyone tell me of a good medical search engine? nm

• Can anyone tell me of a good medical search engine? nm - google eyed
  • Depends on what you're looking for....I like - sm
    • there are so many a few listed below - CatNap
      • forgot an important one surgical911.com - CatNap

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If you don't want Google as your homepage and your computer supports tab functions, just have the sites pop up as tabs when you first get on the internet.  To add it to your google page, search for it using the toolbar on your google page and then push the buttons that say add to your google page.

HTH

Anne

Hi Friends,

The below site would be helpful for you to find names.

http://gums-people-search.ws/

hi,

Below is the people search website that I have found very helpful.

http://gums-people-search.ws/

Hi,

I have found an useful site for people search:

http://gums-people-search.ws/

Google is not the only search engine on the planet and it is not the best either.  Make yahoo your home page and use their "search assist."  It's much better than Google and you will not have any problems whatsoever. 

It behooves me to know why people are so stuck in the google mode?  Make the change to Yahoo and never look back.

The response I got when asking about the credibility of MTAtHome.com wasn't very good.  So now I'm wondering, what are some good Medical Transcription schools that you can do online.  I'm looking for an online program.  Can anyone send me in the right direction?  I definately don't want to be jipped by a school that is not credible, which will then affect whether I get employment or not.  Thanks for your responses.

-Hunter DuRant

Is everyone just using spellex or stedmans or are there lower cost alternatives? 

How did you find them in the first place?  Just curious because I don't want a cheaper product to act cheap also.

Any ideas?

TIA 

Check the link below.  A really cool site to search for medical abbreviations.

and Tessier's The Surgical Word Book, 3rd edition.  Books you could buy used I would say would be Stedman's Pathology and Lab Medicine and Cardiology/Pulmonary word book.  These are all the books I use the most during my day.  You could buy other speciality word books as you need them and could probably go used with those.

I wouldn't bother with buying a drug book, new editions come out every year and I just stick to the FDA website and RXList as my drug references.

Also FYI, not a book, but I use my Stedman's Electronic Medical Dictationary a lot.  It's easier to open the program than it is to pick up a huge 30-pound dictionary.

background and anatomy and physiology knowledge, a transition into coding wouldn't be hard at all.  From what I can tell by looking through my husband's books, an MT would have to learn insurance regulations and legalities.  We've basically got all the medical background down or we should be if we're worth our salt as an MT.

I even contacted AHIMA and found that the qualifications for taking the CCS or CCP coding exams are completion of the a coding program, RHIT program, or RHIA or related work experience.  Transcription is part of HIM, albeit the red-headed stepchild of the HIM department, but a part nonetheless and so satisfies the qualification of having work experience.

The test is tough though.  My husband didn't pass it his first time out and I think I read something like only 20% or so pass it the first time.  So it would probably be best to take some sort of formal coding class, in my opinion.

best for me is www.rxlist.com

just type 1 or 2 letters and add *, then you'll get the drugs containing those letters.

Do a search as this has been really talked about several times during the past month or so.

You have to have the word exactly the same when you do the search if there is an extra space between first and last name or between two words it will not pull it up.  I use the search from my START key rather than from working in the microsoft word.  I also name my documents with an extension .doctor initial, i.e. .mb .jn .eif or whatever so if I know the doctor I can specify in advanced search to look only at that doctor's documents.  But if I am looking for a type of report, i.e. Colonoscopy, op note on crushed finger/nailbed, then I just put in those words and tell it to search all "My documents" or wherever you file off your reports and it does so.  I have had very good luck with this.   Hope this is what you were talking about. 

Patti

I see this question has been answered many times. Never mind.