Ellen Drake’s Useful Internet Links
Note: All links worked as of April 21, 2009.
Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary 30th ed., online
http://www.dorlands.com/index.jsp
PubMed (National Library of Medicine)
http://www.pubmed.com
[email protected]
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/drugsatfda/
Taxonomy Browser (NCBI/Medline)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=taxonomy
This site includes viruses.
Approved List of Bacterial Names
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=bacname&part=part2.bxml
If you know it’s a bacteria you’re looking for, this is faster than NCBI.
Medical Devices (surgical instruments)
http://www.mdrweb.com/Industry/Archive/index.cfm?fuseaction=510kDetails&FDA_510K=K081127
Nonpharmacological medical devices needing FDA approval.
Here are a few web sites you may want to bookmark:
General Medical Resources
http://www.emedicine.com/specialties.htm
Use the search box to search for a disease or procedure. You may have to register on this site. If
so, register as an allied health professional, not a consumer. In fact, never register on a medical
site as a consumer.
http://www.fpnotebook.com/index.htm
Similar to the site above, you can search for diseases and conditions.
http://www.labtestsonline.org/
Lab tests and values explained. I used to recommend LabCorp but their site has changed and is
no longer easily accessible. They have a health library “powered by LabTestsOnline” so why not
just go to that site? What I don’t like about this site is that you have to click through a number of
pages to get to what you want. The old LabCorp appendix gave you everything about a test on
one page.
ARUP Consuult
http://www.arupconsult.com/Topics/A.html
Search for lab tests by disease entity.
http://spwb.com/
Authors Website for Saunders Pharmaceutical Word Book. Free updates are no longer available
unless you have the CD, but Randy posts an interesting opinion piece once a month, and there
are some FAQs that might prove interesting.
MT Desk Resources
http://www.mtdesk.com/online-resources/ (Click on Word Lists in menu bar across top)
http://www.mtdesk.com/word-lists/stumper-terms-for-newmts.phphttp://www.mtdesk.com/frame.php?frame=glossary&page=lists_stumper
Sample Reports
http://www.ritecode.com/free_opreports/opreport_free_index.htm
http://www.mtdesk.com/operative-reports/
http://www.mtdaily.com/mt1/exampledocs.html
http://www.medword.com/samples.html
http://www.mt-stuff.com/sample_reports.html
http://www.mt-stuff.com/general_surgery.html
http://mtresourcez.tripod.com/id21.html
http://www.stedmans.com/AtWork/section.cfm/27
http://www.mtsamples.com/
http://www.mt-resources.com/sample_reports.htm
Some of these sites have drop-down menus where you can select a report by type or specialty.
You can also perform a Google search for (medical “sample reports”) without the parentheses for
additional sample reports. LWW has a lot as do other MT sites. Caveat: The accuracy of these
samples is only as good as the MT who created them; do NOT assume that they have been
QA’d.
English Language
American Heritage Dictionary of English Usage
http://www.bartleby.com/a64/
Questoins about grammar, style (not medical style, of course), word choice (usage like
who/whom, etc.), plurals, possessives, grammar toolkit.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
One of the best grammar & punctuation sites on the web.
http://home.pct.edu/~evavra/indexGR.htm
http://home.pct.edu/~evavra/GCMS/index.htm
KISS grammar. Ed Vavra, whose site this is, loves to ramble and rant, but he has some
great material for those who’ve never quite gotten the hang of grammar and punctuation. He
used to have a bunch of workbooks, supposedly written for the 8th grade level, but I can’t find
those now. The 2nd link above is probably your best bet for practice material.
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/booksellers/press_release/100words/
100 Words Every H.S. Senior Should Know. See if you know them!
Most Often Misspelled Words in English
http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/misspelled.html
http://www.esldesk.com/esl-quizzes/misspelled-words/index.htm
Spelling test for commonly misspelled English words:
http://businesswriting.com/tests/commonmisspelled.html
http://www.esldesk.com/esl-quizzes/misspelled-words/misspelled-words.htm
Spelling Mnemonics
http://www.audiblox2000.com/learning_disabilities/spelling-mnemonics.htm
Commonly misspelled and misused English words bar chart ($5.95)
http://www.barcharts.com/Inventory/Navision/9781572227880
These are laminated sheets that you can purchase. There’s an extensive line of medical laminated
sheets as well.
Problem Words in English (homophones/soundalikes)
http://www.paulnoll.com/Books/Clear-English/Problem-Words-1.html
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2226406/Copy-of-English-Homophones
Medical Language
Frequently misspelled medical words
http://www.meditec.com/commonly-misspelled-words.html
Medical Homophones
http://www.mt911.com/site/term/sound_alike_medical.asp
http://www.meditec.com/sound-alike-words.html
AHDI Book of Style
The Phrontistery: Shapes and Forms
http://phrontistery.info/shapes.html
I list this as a fun site. If you search in OneLook for a term and the term you find is linked to this
site, beware. It’s a dictionary of obscure and rare words, so it’s unlikely the word you’ve found is
really the one you want.