The Patient's Guide to Medical Terminology - Softcover

Isler, Charlotte

9781885987082: The Patient's Guide to Medical Terminology

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1885987080 ISBN 13: 9781885987082

Publisher: Health Information Pr, 1997

Designed for health-care consumers, workers, and their families, a layman's guide to medical terminology offers concise, clear descriptions of common illnesses, diagnostic tests, terms, and procedures, in plain English. Original. IP.

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Review:

The handwriting of doctors is notoriously illegible, but little attention gets paid to another form of frequent, albeit unintentional, alienation: medical language. Starting with abbreviations and moving on to a full dictionary of medical terminology, Charlotte Isler translates well over 1,000 terms and more than 500 abbreviations into standard, understandable English. You might not have known, offhand, that BAC stands for "blood alcohol concentration," that phlebitis is an inflammation of a vein, and that a smear, far from being a smudge of dirt or a type of hors d'oeuvre, is technical talk for "a thin layer of tissue or fluid spread on a glass side for microscopic examination." Practical for families, handy for medical students, and a pleasure for medical enthusiasts, Isler's dictionary takes some of the fear of the unknown out of medical jargon. --Stephanie Gold

About the Author:

Charlotte Isler is the editor and author of several health journals and books, including The Teen Health Directory. She lives with her husband in Irvington, New York and has two grown sons.

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