Miller-Keane Encyclopedia & Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, & Allied Health

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0721632025
• ISBN13: 9780721632025
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: W B Saunders Co
• Weight: 3.62 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Invaluable allied health resource

This encyclopedia/dictionary has been extremely helpful to me in my clinical affiliation as an occupational therapy student. It is a great way to refresh the memory on aspects of common diagnoses, and handy for learning about less common things that arise every day in patient care. My only complaint: no list of common abbreviations for diseases and procedures, e.g., PEG, EMG, CAD, etc. I wish I had purchased this book at the beginning of my professional education rather than near the end!

excellent resource book

i am a nursing major and this book is EXCELLENT for reference... i recommend it highly...

An alert to Readers

Of course the 5th edition is out of stock. The 6th edition (ISBN 0-7216-6278-10) came out in 1997. I'm a medical librarian and I keep this next to my computer desk to aid in spelling for online searches, looking up unfamiliar words so I know which book(s) to check, and to help me translate medical jargon into laymen's terms for patients. My library has Dorland's and Stedman's medical dictionaries, too, of course, but this one is my personal favorite.