Essentials of Pharmacology for Health Occupations by Ruth Woodrow (2006, Package)

This is an excellent reference for medical transcriptionists, both students and the experienced MT.

MTs are by nature detectives. They have to be. Doctors oftentime dictate too fast, slur their words, and mumble during the most important parts of the dictation. This book will make a good addition to your detective arsenal.

This book allows you to reference drugs by body systems. In additional to body system coverage, very good background information regarding different administration routes, common abbreviations for medication orders, poison control, drug classifications, side/toxic effects--to name but a few--is covered in a well thought out layout.

The MT has to be a detective of sorts, often using the available information only dictated by the doctor, to fill in the missing blanks.

This book gives you the tools to understand what is happening pharmaceutically and gives you the "ammo" needed to back up your conclusions.

I have found many different drugs that were mumbled by the doctor (and I couldn't figure out elsewise) by the use of this book. (It made it a lot easier to consult this book by body system than it was to sit down and figure things out with myriad phonetic combinations.)

A nice job done on this book--not too complicated for the layperson at all, and fairly comprehensive too.

By the way, I think it's far better than Turley's Understanding Pharmacology for Health Professions--one of the reference books used by MTs.

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