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Reference books - out of curiosity - NGMT

Posted: Jul 19, 2011

Hello, MTs! I am back for another question! I do have a list of books I'm interested in purchasing from either Dorland's or Stedman's medical dictionary to Merck Manual's of Patient Symptoms (the list goes on, but I'm just naming a couple). Google is so wonderful when it comes to researching when you don't have anything, but I feel it's not completely reliable as having hardcopy materials.

Out of curiosity, what book(s) can you not live without or work without if the Internet doesn't exist the way it does now? I currently own an electronic copy of BOS 3rd edition, but that's all I have.

books - I have

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Stedman's Medical and Surgical Equipment Words

Pathology/Laboratory words and phrases.

Also depends if you are doing acute care or just specializing in clinic notes, but I do have word books for just about every different specialties.

I used to go to the state symposium and annual state meetings and even national meetings for MTs back in the 1990s and there were always book vendors with all their updated versions of any book you wanted. Probably not something that happens to much anymore. But those were the wonderful days.

But I have used these books in a long time as the interet is sooo wonderful.

books - oldone

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I seem to be addicted to purchasing medical books. I would agree that the Stedman's Surgical and Equipment Word book is a must have. Also use my pathology/lab words book a lot. I have most every word book there is though. The Stedman's GYN/Pediatric book has been a great help, too.

Books - Lannie

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I have a small library of Stedman's books. I use the Internet most of the time but when I get conflicting answers or spellings I rely on my books to give me the correct answer. The books are the final word so to speak.

Books - anon

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I only use the internet for referrence now. I do have most of the speciality Stedman's books though and they are fantastic. I would have never made it through the early years without them.

Most used in the day -- GI/GU, Ortho, Radiology (even though I wasn't a rad MT), oncology, neurology, cardiology.

My list of books - Bonnie

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I use all my reference books still, just to backup the internet spelling, but the ones I could not live without internet would be:

A drug book.
Surgical Word Book.
Laboratory book.
Oncology book
Ortho book

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