Franklin DOC-3010 User Manual

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

Quick Reference Guide

T o 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.
CARD
3. If needed, press use the
or to highlight its
and then
icon.
ENTER
4. Press
to select it.
T o Search for W ords
1. Press
2. Type one or more words.
3. Press
4. Hold ✩ and press DN to see
5. Press
6. To expand a search, press
SEARCH
.
ENTER
.
the locations of matches.
ENTER
MENU
to see a match or
to see the matches listed
on the menus.
MORE
.
T o Use the Menus
1.
2. Highlight an entry by typing its
3. Press
4. Select subitems, if needed, by
5. Use
MENU
Press
and highlight the
Diseases menu or the Drugs menu.
name or pressing
ENTER
or .
.
highlighting them and pressing
ENTER
.
, DN, or
SPACE
to scroll.
T o Use Notes
1. When the text of the book is on screen, press
2. Press
3. Press
ENTER
ENTER
note title and then press
4. To find a note in the text, press
LIST
, highlight a note title, and
then press
LIST
.
to select
Add Note
or type your own
ENTER
ENTER
.
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License Agreement

READ THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT BEFORE USING THE MEDICAL BOOK SYSTEM.
YOUR USE OF THE MEDICAL BOOK SYSTEM DEEMS THAT YOU ACCEPT THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THESE TERMS, YOU MAY RETURN THIS PACKAGE WITH PURCHASE RECEIPT TO THE DEALER FROM WHICH YOU PURCHASED THE MEDICAL BOOK SYS­TEM AND 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 ex­port or re-export, directly or indirectly , the MEDICAL BOOK SYSTEM without com­pliance with appropriate governmental regulations. The MEDICAL BOOK SYSTEM contains Franklin’s confidential and propriety information which you agree to take ad­equate steps to protect from unauthorized disclosure or use. This license is effective un­til terminated. This license terminates immediately without notice from FRANKLIN if you fail to comply with any provision of this license.
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Contents

Introduction

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
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 W eb site at www.franklin.com.
With the Drugs of Choice fr om 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
IMPORT ANT! 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 plat­forms cannot use Medical Book System book cards.
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Key Guide

Color Keys
MORE
(red) Expands a word search.
SPEC
(green) Displays the outline loca­tion of the current text.
SEARCH
(
yellow
) Displays the word search screen.
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 punc­tuation.
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 an asterisk () to stand for letters in a word.
CAP
, types
Direction Keys
DN
UP
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, cross­reference, or note.
+Q-P Types numbers.
DN
or or
+
UP
CAP
At text, displays the next or pre­vious section or subsection.
+
Goes to the top or bottom of a menu or list. At text, goes to the next or previous Outline title.
Understanding the Keys
The functions of the keys may vary ac­cording to which book card is installed and selected in the platform. T o learn how to use a particular book card, read its user’s guide.
* Hold the first key while pressing the second.
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Installing Book Cards

Selecting a Book

CAUTION Never install or remove a book card when the platform is turned on. If you do, information entered in any in­stalled book cards may be erased.
1. T urn 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.
Removing Book Cards
CAUTION When you remove a book card from a platform, information en­tered in that book card will be erased.
If you have installed two book cards in the platform, you can select which book you want to read.
1. T urn the platform on.
CARD
2. Press
.
3. Use or to highlight the book you want to use.
4. Press
Resuming Where You Left Off
ENTER
to select it.
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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Changing the Settings

Viewing a Demonstration

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 charac­ters 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-
CLEAR
pears when you press
1. Press
2. Highlight
MENU
.
Set Type Size, Set De­fault State, Set Shutoff Contrast
3. Press
4. Use
Or press
on the Setup menu.
ENTER
.
or to change the setting.
BACK
to leave the setting un-
.
, or
Set
changed.
5. Press
ENTER
to select it.
Before you start using this book, you may want to see a brief demonstration of what it can do.
MENU
Press
and then use the arrow keys to
highlight V iew Demo on the Setup menu.
ENTER
Press onstration, press
to select it. To stop the dem-
CLEAR
.
➤ Help is Always at Hand
You can view a help message at virtu­ally any screen by pressing exit help, press
BACK
HELP
.
T o read a tutorial about this book, se­lect 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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