Product Description

Confirm drug names quickly and accurately with the Saunders Pharmaceutical Word Book 2009. This bestselling reference has been completely updated, and contains the correct spelling and capitalization of over 27,000 brand-name and generic drugs with dosages, reasons for administration, investigational drug names and codes, chemotherapy protocols, trademarked dosage forms, drug categories and classes, and almost 2,000 medicinal herbs and natural remedies. With this indispensable reference at your fingertips, you'll transcribe more efficiently and confidently than ever before!

• Information is organized specifically for and by medical transcriptionists, allowing you to quickly determine the drug being transcribed and confirm related information.
• A special icon alerts you to drugs that may sound like another drug.
• Appendices provide useful information at a glance on the most-prescribed drugs, therapeutic levels for drugs which may cause toxicity, code names, common abbreviations used in prescriptions, and nutraceuticals and herbal medicines, all custom-designed for medical transcriptionists to give you exactly the information you need in a convenient format.
• Author Ellen Drake is a nationally known speaker and expert in medical transcription.

• The latest information on newly approved drugs, discontinued drugs, investigational drugs, new indications, new dosage information, patent expirations, name changes, and schedule changes.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #78390 in Books
• Published on: 2008-11-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 832 pages

Customer Reviews

If you know what this book is, then you probably don't need a review
Those that know what this book is probably aren't going to need a review on it. Those that don't know what it is, probably don't need the book.

This was actually a purchase for my wife, who does medical transcription. She had been working for the past several years with the 2004 edition, and had so many notes written in the margins of the book with new medications that were not in available at the time of the 2004 publication that I went out and found her the latest version. So far, every drug she had written in the margins of her old copy are already in the new one.

For as fast as the pharmaceutical industry cranks out new drugs, it is key for there to be an updated publication like this that gives reference information, common dosages, and prescribed uses for those that are in the MT and other medical related fields.

You cannot work w/out a copy of this book!
I use this for my job, and I have no choice but to purchase a copy frequently. It is kept up to date and I constantly reference it throughout the day while working. The $36 spent is recouped over and over again within the year just in time saved researching drugs if I did not own this book and spelling accuracy.

Excellent resource
I am a home-based medical transcriptionist/editor and this word book is an excellent tool for checking the spelling of prescription medications.