Quick Medical Terminology: A Self-Teaching Guide

by Shirley Soltesz Steiner, Phyllis E. Davis, Genevieve Love Smith (Editor)

More than 300,000 allied health practitioners—including medical technicians, nurses, CPT and ICD-9 coders, medical secretaries, receptionists, transcribers, physician’s office managers and billers, record analysts and clinical laboratory technicians—know the right medical term when it counts, thanks to… Quick Medical Terminology A Self-Teaching Guide/3rd Edition More than 300,000 people in medicine and medical-related industries used the first two editions of Quick Medical Terminology to expand their working medical vocabularies. Besides teaching you over 500 medical terms, it shows you how to recognize and use thousands of other words on the job. What makes this Self-Teaching Guide so successful is its unique word-building system that begins by familiarizing you with the Greek and Latin prefixes, suffixes, word roots and word forms that are the building blocks of nearly all modern medical terminology. And once you’ve mastered these building blocks and understand the simple logic behind how they are combined to form medical terms, the job of learning the hundreds of words you’ll need on the job is a piece of cake! Quick Medical Terminology, 3rd Edition is specially programmed to allow you to work at your own pace with prerequisites, objectives, and tests to check your progress. This 3rd Edition has been updated to include the latest techniques, terminology and advances in the field of medicine.

Genres: Reference, Nonfiction

304 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1972

Reviews

[David Battiste · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good book for fast understanding of medical terminology. I finished in five days. I did notice a few inconsistencies and one chapter test was completely wrong. Otherwise it would be perfect. If you need to get an encompassing understanding of medical terminology quickly, this book does it.

[Michael · Rating 2 out of 5]

Awful set up. Rote memorization of the Greek and Latin and doesn't even distinguish between the two (it really matters). Originally had Medical Terminology from a professor of Greek and it made a huge difference in comprehension. Using this book as a refresher was unfulfilling.

[Katsumi · Rating 4 out of 5]

wow

[j v Susan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellant Practice again 2015/Jun/July

[Cyndi D. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sadly, I will need to devote the next 6 months to job related study. I'm starting by brushing up on medical terminology.