I don't think MT students are encouraged to use book.
Posted By: OldMT on 2008-11-04
In Reply to: I actually enjoy it when I can help out here!...sm - Cyndiee
Subject: I don't think MT students are encouraged to use book.
Most of the newbies I see don't really have any reference books. Seems they rely entirely on the Internet and want to Google everything. That's fine and it is fast. But one day a newbie was working on tapes in the office and the Internet went down. OMG!! She panicked! She was totally lost, but funny thing . . . it never once occurred to her to pick up a reference book, even though we have a full set of Stedman Word Books, Dorland's, and brand new drug books in the office. I do use Google, but there's times when you really need a book.
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Subject: hx of recurrent UTI - The patient was encouraged not to use a condom Foley and continue 'SIMC.'
students
Subject: students
I'm going to open up a can of worms here...
Just wondering thoughts on students posting for word help on this board. I have not been on this forum that long myself, but found it several months ago as I was working my way through the last of my MT coursework. While it was nice to have access to past posts for hints and clues, I used it as a resource much the same as the rest of the internet - not a way for someone else to tell me the answer, but just a way to help me find it myself by searching past posts. Just like I wouldn't have gone to wikianswers and posed a question I should research myself, I wouldn't post a question here when I could do the research myself.
It seems to me that recently I have been seeing a lot of students asking for answers that are actually quite easily found with a simple search on Yahoo or Google. I even saw one post where the person downright admitted they were working on an exam and wanted someone to give them an answer. Myself, I feel that I am a better transcriptionist for having researched everything for myself when I was a student. Now that I am working, however, I am grateful for this forum! I also know that sometimes even plain English is hard to understand with some dictators, and it is wonderful to be able to use fellow MTs as a sounding board and source of wisdom when I just can't find the answer myself. Therefore, I don't want to sound like a hypocrite about using this forum as a resource.
So, what are your thoughts, working MTs, on students posting for word help, especially when one can find the answer with a simple search?
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Students
Subject: Students
I don't see a problem with it myself. Whether they ask here or Google, they will still come up with an answer. I think it would be easier to remember things if you had researched and done the necessary reading rather than have an answer thrown at you but we are all different and learn in different ways. IMHO, a student may as well do the research first because, even when getting an answer here, it would be best to check them out and you still wind up doing the research anyway. It would seem like double the work. But that's my take. :-)
I don't think students are supposed to
Subject: I don't think students are supposed to
ask their questions here though.
I agree, but it is not only students. Many
Subject: I agree, but it is not only students. Many
answers could be found much faster than waiting on someone to give it to you by using google or some of the excellent medical sites that are available. Personally, I still use my Stedman's reference books. On a lot of things, books are a lot quicker when looking for something specific, rather than wading through all the possibilities you find on the internet. New MTs apparently don't buy books anymore and others are just waiting for people to give them the answer. I started when there was no internet and books were all we had.
Students cannot ask TEST QUESTIONS. Asking for help otherwise
Subject: Students cannot ask TEST QUESTIONS. Asking for help otherwise
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Why aren't students allowed to ask questions?
Subject: Why aren't students allowed to ask questions?
From what I understand anyone can ask a question, including doctors, nurses, techs, etc. I don't understand why you are telling the OP she cannot ask a question here? 
That's how we were told to remember it as nursing students
Subject: That's how we were told to remember it as nursing students
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If you weren't provided with a list of students' names, sm
Subject: If you weren't provided with a list of students' names, sm
ask your QA for help.
Thanks! Saw it in Equip book, but not cardiac book.
Subject: Thanks! Saw it in Equip book, but not cardiac book.
Go figure.
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Stedman's Medical Equipment terms book or the Ortho terms book would help. nm
Subject: Stedman's Medical Equipment terms book or the Ortho terms book would help. nm
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Thanks. My book is too old to have that one.
Subject: Thanks. My book is too old to have that one.
Thank you so much!! I really need to get that book!
Subject: Thank you so much!! I really need to get that book!
Thanks very much! That's probably the only book I don't have!
Subject: Thanks very much! That's probably the only book I don't have!
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Which book was that in?
Subject: Which book was that in?
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Subject: I fix it for them the way it's in the book,
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Not in my book
Subject: Not in my book
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thanks.. its not in my 2nd ed GI/GU book nm
Subject: thanks.. its not in my 2nd ed GI/GU book nm
My Abbrev. book has tib-fib. nm
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Thanks so much! Will write it in my book. nm
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Thanks!! Maybe my book is too old, doesn't have it. nm
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sm - love my lab book!
Subject: sm - love my lab book!
VMA, 5-HIAA, cortisol is right, and it is epinephrine and norepinephrine
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Subject: Thanks! I was looking in the HPI ortho book
written in my book
Subject: written in my book
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osetopathy ref book
Subject: osetopathy ref book
Stedman's 5th Edition Orthopaedic & Rehab Words + Stedman's Pathology and Lab Words should cover all you bases. See this link:
http://www.diagnosispro.com/online_store/clinical-reference/Stedman's+Orthopaedic+&+Rehab+Words,+5th+Ed.+(CD-ROM).html
In my Stedman's GI & GU book.....
Subject: In my Stedman's GI & GU book.....
they are both listed side by side, so I think it is the same procedure but just two different ways of writing it out. Either way looks correct.
As per AAMT book 2, is it x2 or x 2? TIA nm
Subject: As per AAMT book 2, is it x2 or x 2? TIA nm
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Does anyone have the Stedman's GI/GU book? (sm)
Subject: Does anyone have the Stedman's GI/GU book? (sm)
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thank you...added it to my book.
Subject: thank you...added it to my book.
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I mean Stedman book
Subject: I mean Stedman book
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per the Book of Style
Subject: per the Book of Style
Per Book of Style 2 edition page 150:
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What would you go by...book or internet....SM
Subject: What would you go by...book or internet....SM
For constipation, patient is being prescribed *Senna-lax-S*. My Quick Look Drug Book does not have it at all. Google does have it all over. My Stedman's spellchecker marks it wrong though and wants to change it to Cenalax. Cenalax does not come up on Google anywhere and asks if I meant 'sennalax' instead. OY! Anyone know which is correct? Is my Stedman's spellchecker wrong-o?
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Subject: Yes, I see it my drug book also
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Subject: my drug book has Z-PAK nm
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Subject: My onc book shows
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Subject: these are all the encephalopathies in my book
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Subject: There is appendicocele in the book
I can't document in a book either, but
Subject: I can't document in a book either, but
crura of the diaphragm actually makes some sense. I am thinking this is repair of a hiatal hernia or a small hole that would lead to a hiatal hernia. Myself, I would give the doctor the word and use it.
My dental book
Subject: My dental book
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Thanks! But which book under what heading? I tried with
Subject: Thanks! But which book under what heading? I tried with
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AAMT book says
Subject: AAMT book says
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Subject: my Onc book has HER2/neu nm
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Subject: Thanks! I didn't have that one in my book!
That's great, I can add it to my book, thanks!
Subject: That's great, I can add it to my book, thanks!
I don't see that in my Ortho book -
Subject: I don't see that in my Ortho book -
And can't find that spelling online. It may be something new, but I've never heard/seen it as it's spelled.
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Subject: What is a Stimulus Book?
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Subject: thanks, that's it....it is not in my abbrev. book so I was not sure....NM
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Subject: thanks! this one is not in my abbrev. book either :(
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Subject: Book of Style
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Subject: Looking in my Stedman's Ob-Gyn book,
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When you look in your ortho book
Subject: When you look in your ortho book
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