Stedman's Guide to Idioms
Know the Lingo

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Beef up your reference library with Stedman’s Guide to Idioms: Know the Lingo, and you won’t be left out in the rain. It will be smooth sailing from here on out. You’ll breathe easy knowing you have the ball in your court; and you won’t find yourself behind the eight ball. With Stedman’s Guide to Idioms, it won’t take you forever and a day to make heads or tails of unfamiliar idioms.

Every medical language professional knows that healthcare has a language of its own, plus a wide range of idioms, Americanisms, informal usages, and slang phrases. Such diversity can pose time-consuming challenges- and risks of error- to medical transcriptionists, and other medical language professionals at every skill level.

Stedman’s Guide to Idioms brings meaning to the variety of medical language terminology and phrases used in healthcare. It’s an essential reference, providing authoritative content with clarity and accuracy for busy medical transcriptionists, students, court reporters, and other professionals who work with medical language. Additionally, this is a must-have resource for those who speak English as their second language, helping readers understand the intricacies of “Americanisms,” along with the many informal and slang phrases that are often encountered in medical dictation and documentation.

Features and highlights:

• Includes thousands of entries, each with a concise definition plus a usage example in a medical context—a real benefit for accurately interpreting medical language and for healthcare professionals who speak English as a second language
• Covers a wide range of common and unusual idioms, such as: “…been through the mill,” “…call a spade a spade,” “…go under the knife,” “…on the QT,” … penny-wise and pound-foolish,” “…put the cart before the horse,” and many more
• Alphabetical listing enables fast and easy look-up

As people say – It’s a real lifesaver!