Re: Medical Words / Possible Drug Listing - Invitation and Announcement
Are you talking about strictly "clinical" 'medical words' or words and phrases
used more generally in the healthcare field?
At 09:53 PM 5/19/02 , Elizabeth Barham wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm currently studying a text entitled "The Language of Medicine", 6th
>Edition by Davi-Ellen Chabner. It's a wonderful book and is a
>"write-in" book, sort of like a workbook. It even comes with a CD-ROM
>that tests the user with the words. If anyone is interested in
>learning more about medical words, I highly suggest it.
>
>Anyway, as I was going through it, I thought it would be nice just to
>start putting the words into a text file, which I have begun doing.
>I'm of the inclination that this may be valuable for future
>applications.
>
>So, I set up a project at sourceforge:
>
>http://sourceforge.net/projects/medicalwords
>
>If anyone is interested in helping me type words in, let me know and I
>shall mark you as a developer allowing you to update the CVS
>repository.
>
>It does not seem out-of-scope to also allow a general listing of
>medications for use by future applications as well.
>
>The whole thing is Public Domain which means no direct copying is
>allowed from the text itself, although words and general definitions
>are okay. This also means that the only inclusions allowed must be
>typed in by hand (no OCR).
>
>So if anyone is interested in contributing, let me know - even if it's
>just 5 minutes once a week or so. The project has a discussion board
>and if anyone has any input into the design of the words, please feel
>free to post them there.
>
>Kind regards, Elizabeth
>
>
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