Medical Terminology/Transcription On-Line Course
Facilitator: Carrie Stein, CMT
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UPDATES/CORRECTIONS TO HILLCREST (5th ed.)
UPDATES/CORRECTIONS TO MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY MADE EASY (3rd ed.)
No book ever written came through the publishing process without an error of some kind. This is true of the textbooks Gatlin Education Services uses for the Medical Terminology/ Transcription Course as well. The following list of Updates to Hillcrest and to Medical Terminology Made Easy, as shown below, illustrates some of the typos and inconsistencies that we have identified over the years, both with the help of our students and otherwise. Please feel free to contact your Facilitator if you have comments and/or questions about any aspect of your course material.
When changing the spoken word to the written word, medical transcriptionists everywhere have to remember that we are creating legal documents that are subject to subpoena. The doctors and others who dictate patient reports depend on us to know the English language, English grammar and punctuation, medical terminology, and a proper style in which to put their words. There are times when we have to transcribe what is meant rather than what is said, and this skill will be put to use in the GES medical transcription course. Since English is not always consistent, there will be times when there is more than one way of correctly transcribing something dictated.
As part of learning medical transcription, students should learn to think for themselves. No one is expected to blindly follow printed material or even a Facilitator. We encourage you to question the material, question the textbooks, and question your Facilitator by asking for explanations�ones that you clearly understand. This is a way for everyone to learn and grow.
UPDATES TO HILLCREST TEXTBOOK (5th ed.)
Page 15: OTHER MODEL REPORTS, last line: Not all Quali-Care reports use the SOAP/HPIP formats; some reports are transcribed on a blank page. In these instances the student types in the patient demographics and report headings.
Page 19: Model Report Form 1: This Past History paragraph should include Surgical, Illnesses, Allergies, and Medications. (There is an inappropriate break just before Illnesses.)
Page 21: Model Report Form 2: If using the indent command does not allow you to line up your list, please type the list flush left. It is more important to line lists up than to indent them.
Page 37: Model Report Form 10: The first two paragraphs should be flush left, as the last two paragraphs are.
Page 41: CAPITALIZATION: Examples--Rockey-Davis incision (not Rocky)
Page 42: NUMBERS, No. 1, line one: Spell out numbers one through ten (not nine)
Page 42: NUMBERS, No. 2, line five: Apgar scores were 9/9 at 1 and 5 minutes, respectively. (should be comma after minutes)
Page 43: NUMBERS, No. 6, line three: . . . greater than ten (not nine)
Page 43: NUMBERS, No. 9, line seven: Delete the phrase "98.6 degrees F" -- that is not an acceptable style for writing temperature.
Page 43: NUMBERS, No. 9, line nine: Delete the phrase "35.4 degrees C" -- that is not an acceptable style for writing temperature.
Page 73: EtOH (not ETOH)
Page 88: Chem 20 not Chem-20
Page 123: interrupted 1-0 Novafil (not �one-O,� and these both should be zero, not alpha O)
Page 127: waxed and waned: This phrase (not phase) refers to . . .
Page 132: Nu Gauze (not Nu-gauze) This is a brand name and is two words, each with initial caps.
Page 140: jugular venous (not jugulovenous)
Page 141: macrophage: a large cell (not a red blood cell) with a round or indented nucleus
Page 146: ciprofloxacin (not ciprofloxin)
Page 148: Pleur-evac system, suction, or tube (not pleural vac)
Page 232: Right-hand column: ciprofloxacin (not ciprofloxin)
Page 234: Left-hand column: EtOH (not ETOH)
Page 238: Right-hand column: Pleur-evac (not pleural vac)
UPDATES TO MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY MADE EASY (3rd ed.)
Page 48, Unit 1 Review Exercises, Part 5: #2 should be HCl instead of HCK.
Page 72, frame 2-62: arterioscopy (not artrioscopy)
Page 155, Answer Column to frame 4-113: or trichophagia (not ortrichophagia)
Page 186, frame 5-76: delete second line that says "of pubis is ________." (duplicate phrase)
Page 266, frames 7-89 and 7-90: information on writing style of gravida and para is incorrect. Please see student information documents on the page entitled �Vital Signs, Suture Sizing, Sharp and Blunt Dissection, and Gravida and Para" for correct styles of writing gravida and para.
Page 279, Unit 7 puzzle
DOWN clues are incorrect from 3 through 18. Delete �pregnancy and delivery� under 3. Move all clues up one number and add 18 at the end of the column before �sexually transmitted infection.�
Page 379, frame 10-19: Cocci growing in clusters are staphyl o (not strept o)
Page 437, Appendix E, Word-Building System Review Answers, No. 1: The correct answer is "c," not "a" as printed.
Page 438, Appendix E, Unit 1 Review Exercise Answers, Part 6: The answer to #11 is omitted. The answer is "midsagittal."