TY - BOOK AU - Inlander , Charles B. AU - Brisco, Paulo TI - Terms of empowerment: the consumer's guide to medical lingo SN - 0962733407 [paperback] PY - 1990/// CY - Allentown, PA. PB - People's Medical Society N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents: The empowered medical consumer -- The key to translating medical terms -- Medical abbreviations -- And still more medical lingo -- Mainstream M. D. practitioners -- Nontraditional therapies -- Hospital health professionals -- Health care facilities -- Tools of the medical trade -- Diagnostic tests -- The most frequent inpatient procedures -- The most frequent outpatient procedures -- Dental terms -- Health insurance terms -- Medication families -- Measurements and equivalents ER -