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Quick Look Drug book or Saunders Pharmaceutical? - Sunshine State MT

Posted: Apr 20, 2010

I need to upgrade by drug book. Which do you guys use if any?

I used to use the Quick Look but over the last couple of years have been going with Saunders Pharmaceutical.

Just wondering . . .

Quick Look vs Saunders Pharm - mt4years

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I use both as I have found Quick Look is really good but occasionally does not have a listing that I need, which I always find in Saunders.

NPPR or Drugs.Com - mt3

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I really like the Nurse Practitioners' Prescribing Reference, a quarterly you can subscribe to. I also use Drugs.Com all the time.

I always use Saunders (nm) - Long time MT

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NM

QuickLook software stinks - sm - anonymous

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I had QuickLook on my previous computer that died. The program wouldn't install on my new computer, and the LWW tech support is terrible. They have too many glitches in registration or installation. I've read reviews on Amazon and Abe Books that say the same thing, so it's not an isolated problem.

I love drugs.com, especially their phonetic search.

QuickLook software - mt4years

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I'd have to agree with you on the software. I had it installed on old computer and it stunk. I never could find some of the features that the book has, so I quit using it and went back to the QuickLook book.

I use online for the past 5 years - jm0405

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I quit updating books and started using online web pages for everything. Lexicon has a great medical dictionary, abbreviation, drug reference. It's quicker to insert s/l drug name and/or "cancer drugs" in Google and use what comes up. It's always current online....and free.... :)

DOSAGE IS MY PROBLEM - yochana

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I previously used company owned QuickLook and lost it when changing companies so have been using drugs.com, but I have problems finding drug dosages "fast." I love the wildcard and phonetic searches on drugs.com but bog down when searching for doses. Any suggestions?

Rxlist.com is a good reference for dosage.nm - Allysgrandma

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nm

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