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®

Quick Reference Guide

To Use the Menus

Press

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 ,

, 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

2. Type one or more words.

3. Press

ENTER

4. Hold

✩

and press

to see

the locations of matches.

5. Press

ENTER

to see a match or

to see the matches listed

on the menus.

6. To expand a search, press

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.

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

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.

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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.

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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

Color Keys

(red)Expands a word search.

SPEC

(green)Displays the outline loca-

tion of the current text.

(

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.

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.

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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.

✩

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.

Key Guide

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

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Removing Book Cards

CAUTION When you remove a book

card from a platform, information en-

tered in that book card will be erased.

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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.

Before you start using this book, you may

want to see a brief demonstration of what it

can do.

Press

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

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.

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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.

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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.

Using the Diseases Menu

The Diseases menu contains the chapters,

sections, and subsections of the printed book.

1. Press

CLEAR

2. If needed, press

and high-

light the Diseases menu.

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

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

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

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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.

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

(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.

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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.

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