When I first started as an medical transcriptionist I only had Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary and Saunder's Pharmaceutical Word Book. My MT course required you to have a medical dictionary and drug book. That was also all I had when I started my first job as a medical transcriptionist. I slowly added to my library and the following is a list of other books I have since added:
Stedman's Abbreviation, Acronyms & Symbols (There are a lot of abbreviations in the world of medicine. I use this book a lot).
The Medical Word Book by Sheila Sloane (This book listed different specialties such as cardiovascular, obstetrics, orthopedics, etc. This came in very handy as I worked for general practitioners at clinics with no definite speciality, so I had to have information on all specialities.
Stedman's OB-GYN Word Book
Stedman's Surgery Words
Stedman's GI & GU Words
Handbook of Diseases
Stedman's Orthopedic & Rehab Words
Laboratory Test Handbook
As I said earlier, I did not start out with all of these books but they all are very useful to me now. You can start slowly like I did and eventually you will end up with a library of very useful medical books.
Vist my medical transcription website for articles and tips on becoming a home based medical transcriptionist.
Marilyn Roberts
Medical Transcriptionist
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