Franklin DOC-3010 User manual

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DOC-3010
Medical Book System
Book Card User’s Guide
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Medical Book System™
MBS
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™
DRUGS OF CHOICE
FROM
THE MEDICAL LETTER®

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Quick Reference Guide
To Use the Menus
1. Press
MENU
and highlight the
Diseases menu or the Drugs menu.
2. Highlight an entry by typing its
name or pressing or .
3. Press
ENTER
.
4. Select subitems, if needed, by
highlighting them and pressing
ENTER
.
5. Use ,
DN
, or
SPACE
to scroll.
To Use Notes
1. When the text of the book is on
screen, press
LIST
.
2. Press
ENTER
to select Add Note .
3. Press
ENTER
or type your own
note title and then press
ENTER
.
4. To find a note in the text, press
LIST
, highlight a note title, and
then press
ENTER
.
To Search for Words
1. Press
SEARCH
.
2. Type one or more words.
3. Press
ENTER
.
4. Hold
✩
and press
DN
to see
the locations of matches.
5. Press
ENTER
to see a match or
MENU
to see the matches listed
on the menus.
6. To expand a search, press
MORE
.
To Start Using a Book Card
1. Install the book card in a slot in
the back of the Medical Book
System platform.
2. Turn the platform on.
3. If needed, press
CARD
and then
use the or to highlight its
icon.
4. Press
ENTER
to select it.

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READ THIS LICENSEAGREEMENT BEFORE USING THE MEDICALBOOK
SYSTEM.
YOUR USE OF THE MEDICALBOOK SYSTEM DEEMS THAT YOU ACCEPT
THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE. IF YOU DO NOTAGREE WITH THESE
TERMS, YOU MAY RETURN THIS PACKAGE WITH PURCHASE RECEIPT TO
THE DEALER FROM WHICHYOU PURCHASED THE MEDICAL BOOK SYS-
TEMAND YOUR PURCHASE PRICE WILL BE REFUNDED. The MEDICAL
BOOK SYSTEM means the software product, hardware, and documentation found in
this package and FRANKLIN means Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc.
LIMITED USE LICENSE
All rights in the MEDICAL BOOK SYSTEM remain the property of FRANKLIN.
Through your purchase, FRANKLIN grants you a personal and nonexclusive license to
use the MEDICAL BOOK SYSTEM. You may not make any copies of the MEDICAL
BOOK SYSTEM or of the preprogrammed data stored therein, whether in electronic or
print format. Such copying would be in violation of applicable copyright laws. Further,
you may not modify, adapt, disassemble, decompile, translate, create derivative works
of, or in any way reverse engineer the MEDICAL BOOK SYSTEM. You may not ex-
port or re-export, directly or indirectly, the MEDICAL BOOK SYSTEM without com-
pliance with appropriate governmental regulations. The MEDICALBOOK SYSTEM
contains Franklin’s confidential and propriety information which you agree to take ad-
equate steps to protect from unauthorized disclosure or use. This license is effective un-
til terminated. This license terminates immediately without notice from FRANKLIN if
you fail to comply with any provision of this license.
License Agreement

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Contents Introduction
With the Drugs of Choice from The
Medical Letter®book card, you can find
information about drug treatments for 13
common diseases and ailments, including
asthma, hypertension, and psychiatric
disorders. You can also place notes to go
directly to the text you use most often.
To get started, simply install the book card
into the Medical Book System platform.
➤ About Book Card Compatibility
IMPORTANT! This book card can be
used only with the Medical Book System
platform and will not function in any
other Franklin BOOKMAN®platform.
The Medical Book System platform can
use Franklin BOOKMAN book cards as
well as Medical Book System book cards.
However, Franklin BOOKMAN plat-
forms cannot use Medical Book System
book cards.
➤ For More Information
To learn more about the Medical Book
System™or other products from
Franklin Electronic Publishers, call
800-665-5450 or visit the Franklin
Web site at www.franklin.com.
Installing Book Cards................ 4
Selecting a Book........................ 4
Changing the Settings .............. 5
Viewing a Demonstration.......... 5
Using the Diseases Menu ......... 6
Finding Drug References.......... 7
Searching for Words ................. 8
Highlighting Search Words .... 10
Expanding Your Searches ...... 10
Reading Special Markers .........11
Using Notes .............................. 12
Looking Up Words
in Other Books ......................... 13
Resetting the Medical
Book System ............................ 14
Book Card Care........................ 14
Specifications and Patents ...... 15
Limited Warranty (U.S. only) .... 16

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Color Keys
MORE
(red)Expands a word search.
SPEC
(green)Displays the outline loca-
tion of the current text.
SEARCH
( yellow )Displaysthewordsearchscreen.
LIST
(blue) Lets you add, find, or remove
a note.
Function Keys
BACK
Erases typed letters, or backs up to
the previous screen.
CAP
Shifts keys to type capitals or punc-
tuation.
CARD
Exits the currently selected book.
CLEAR
Clears an entry or search and goes
to the default state.
ENTER
Enters a word, selects a menu item,
or starts the highlight in text.
HELP
Displays help messages.
MENU
Displays the main menus.
ON/OFF
Turns the platform on or off.
SPACE
At entry screens, types a space. At
menus and text, pages down.
? ✻
At menus, displays the title of a
highlighted item. With
CAP
, types
an asterisk (✽) to stand for letters in
a word.
➤ Understanding the Keys
The functions of the keys may vary ac-
cording to which book card is installed
and selected in the platform. To learn
how to use a particular book card, read
its user’s guide.
* Hold the first key while pressing the second.
Direction Keys
Pages up or down.
Moves the cursor, text, or highlight.
Key Combinations*
✩
+
BACK
Goes to the top level of
a menu from a lower level.
✩
+
CARD
Transfers a highlighted word
between installed book cards.
✩
+
ENTER
At a highlighted menu item,
displays the related text.At
text, highlights a footnote,
bibliographic reference, cross-
reference, or note.
✩
+Q-P Types numbers.
✩
+
DN
At text, displays the next or pre-
vious section or subsection.
CAP
+ Goes to the top or bottom of
a menu or list.At text, goes to
the next or previous Outline title.
UP
DN
Key Guide
or
UP
or

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CAUTION Never install or remove a
book card when the platform is turned on.
If you do, information entered in any in-
stalled book cards may be erased.
1. Turn the platform off.
2. Turn the platform over.
3. Align the book card tabs with the
notches in a card slot.
4. Press the book card until it
snaps into the slot.
Installing Book Cards
If you have installed two book cards in
the platform, you can select which book
you want to read.
1. Turn the platform on.
2. Press
CARD
.
3. Use or to highlight the book
you want to use.
4. Press
ENTER
to select it.
Selecting a Book
➤ Removing Book Cards
CAUTION When you remove a book
card from a platform, information en-
tered in that book card will be erased.
➤ Resuming Where You Left Off
You can turn off the platform at any
screen. When you turn it on again, the
last screen that you viewed appears.

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Before you start using this book, you may
want to see a brief demonstration of what it
can do.
Press
MENU
and then use the arrow keys to
highlight View Demo on the Setup menu.
Press
ENTER
to select it. To stop the dem-
onstration, press
CLEAR
.
Viewing a Demonstration
Changing the Settings
Using the Setup menu, you can adjust the
type size, default state, shutoff time, and
screen contrast of this book.
The type size sets how large the charac-
ters appear on screen. The shutoff time
sets how long your Medical Book System
stays on if you forget to turn it off.
The default state sets the screen that ap-
pears when you press
CLEAR
.
1. Press
MENU
.
2. Highlight
Set Type Size, Set De-
fault State, Set Shutoff
, or Set
Contrast
on the Setup menu.
3. Press
ENTER
.
4. Use or to change the setting.
Or press
BACK
to leave the setting un-
changed.
5. Press
ENTER
to select it.
➤ Help is Always at Hand
You can view a help message at virtu-
ally any screen by pressing
HELP
. To
exit help, press
BACK
.
To read a tutorial about this book, se-
lect Tutorial from the Setup menu.
➤ Follow the Arrows
The flashing arrows at the right of the
screen show which arrow keys you can
press to move through menus or view
more text.

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Using the Diseases Menu
The Diseases menu contains the chapters,
sections, and subsections of the printed book.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. If needed, press
MENU
and high-
light the Diseases menu.
3.
Use or to highlight a chapter.
For example, highlight
Hypertension .
You can also highlight a menu item by typ-
ing its title. To delete a letter, press
BACK
.
The slanted arrow indicates that the
menu item has a submenu.
4. When the desired chapter is high-
lighted, press
ENTER
to select it.
You can also go directly to the text by
holding
✩
and pressing
ENTER
.
5. Highlight a section and press
ENTER
.
For example, select
Diuretics .
To see the full title of any menu item,
press
? ✻
.
6. Highlight a subsection and
press
ENTER
. For example, select
Loop Diuretics .
7. Use , DN , or
SPACE
to scroll.
8. To go to the next or previous
subsection, hold
CAP
and use
or .
9. Press
CLEAR
when finished.
Using the Diseases Menu

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➤ Where in the Book Am I?
When you are reading the text of a
chapter or drug reference, you can see
the Outline location of the current text
by pressing
? ✻
.
To scroll up to a higher level of the
Outline, use .
To display the full title of an item,
press
? ✻
. This is especially useful
when the title ends in ellipses.
Press
BACK
to go back to the text that
you were reading. Or press
ENTER
to go
to the text of the highlighted item.
Using the Diseases Menu Finding Drug References
All the drugs in this book are listed alpha-
betically on the Drugs menu.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. If needed, press
MENU
and high-
light the Drugs menu.
3. Start typing the name of a drug.
For example, type
Ibuprofen .
To delete a letter, use
BACK
.
You can also use or to highlight
a drug.
4. When the drug is highlighted,
press
ENTER
.
5. Highlight a reference, if needed,
and press
ENTER
.
➤ Understanding Tables
In this book card, tables are displayed
as bulleted text. Row titles are in bold
type and column titles and information
are indented beneath them.

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6. Use , DN , or
SPACE
to scroll.
7. To go to the next or previous
subsection, hold
CAP
and use
or .
8. Press
CLEAR
when finished.
Finding Drug References Searching for Words
Word searches find all the occurrences, or
matches, of a word or word phrase in this
book.
You can type up to 34 characters in a sin-
gle search. But you cannot search for
short, common words such as the and is.
1. Press
SEARCH
(yellow).
2. Type your search words. For ex-
ample, type
severe headache .
To delete a letter, use
BACK
.
You do not need to type capitals or
punctuation to find matches.
3. Press
ENTER
to search.
This is the Outline location of the first
match of your search words.
➤ Reviewing the Outline
When the text of the book is on the
screen, you can go to the lowest level
of the Outline associated with that text,
by pressing
SPEC
(green).
Then you can press
SPEC
(green) to
go to the higher levels of the Outline.
To go to a section of the Outline, high-
light it and press
ENTER
. To go back,
press
BACK
.
A checkmark indicates the current sec-
tion or chapter.