GCC-3012
Medical Book Card
User’s Guide
Quick Reference Guide
To Use the Menus
1.
2. On the Outline menu and
3. Press
4. Use , DN, or
MENU
Press
and highlight the
Outline menu or the Index menu.
submenus, and on the Index
submenus, highlight an entry by
typing its name or pressing
or
.
ENTER
to select.
SPACE
to scroll.
T o Use Notes
1. When the text of the book is on
screen, press
2. Press
ENTER
3. Type your note title and then press
ENTER
.
4. To find a note in the text, press
LIST
, highlight a note title, and
then press
LIST
.
to select
ENTER
.
Add note
.
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T o Search for W ords
1. Press
2. Type one or more words.
3. Press
4. Hold
5. Press
6. To expand a search, press
SEARCH
.
ENTER
.
and press DN to see
✩
the locations of matches.
ENTER
MENU
to see a match or
to see the matches listed
on the menus.
MORE
.
Quick Keys*
B
Goes to
Basics
section
.
Goes to
Goes to
Goes to
Goes to
Diagnosis
Followup
Medications
Miscellaneous
D
F
M
O
(Other) section.
T
* You can use the Quick Keys only when the text of a
drug monograph is on the screen.
Goes to
Treatment
section.
section.
section.
section.
License Agreement
READ THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT BEFORE USING THE MEDICAL BOOK
SYSTEM.
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THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THESE
TERMS, YOU MAY RETURN THIS PACKAGE WITH PURCHASE RECEIPT TO
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BOOK SYSTEM means the software product, hardware, and documentation found in
this package and FRANKLIN means Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc.
LIMITED USE LICENSE
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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
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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
Key Guide..................................... 3
Installing Book Cards .................. 4
Selecting a Book .......................... 5
Changing the Settings ................. 5
Viewing a Demonstration ............ 6
Using the Outline ......................... 6
Using the Index ............................ 8
Searching for Words....................9
Highlighting Search Words ....... 10
Expanding Y our Searches......... 11
Reading Special Markers........... 12
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 Warranties................15-16
Index ........................................... 17
➤
About Book Card Compatibility
IMPORT ANT This book card can be
used only with the Medical Book Sys-
™
platform and will not function in any
tem
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.
➤
For More Information
To learn more about the Medical Book
System or other products from Franklin Electronic Publishers, call 609-2394333 or visit the Franklin Web site at
www.franklin.com.
➤
About Screen Illustrations
Some screen illustrations in this User’s
Guide may vary slightly from what you
see on screen. This does not mean that
your Medical Book System platform or
this book card is malfunctioning.
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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 high-
?
lighted item. With
CAP
asterisk (✽) to stand for letters in a
word. At text, displays the current Outline location of the text.
, types an
Key Combinations*
+
CARD
✩
+
✩
Transfers a highlighted word
between installed book cards.
At a highlighted menu item, dis-
ENTER
plays the related text. At text,
highlights special markers (e.g.,
footnotes, cross-references,
tables, etc.).
✩
+Q-P Types numbers.
+
✩
UP
or
CAP
or
* Hold the first key while pressing the second.
➤
Understanding the Keys
At text, displays the next or
DN
previous paragraph, table row,
or search match.
+
Goes to the top or bottom of
a menu or list. At text, goes to
the next or previous Outline title.
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.
3
Key Guide
Installing Book Cards
Direction Keys
DN
UP
Pages up or down.
Moves the cursor, text, or highlight.
Quick Keys*
Goes to the Basics section.
B
Goes to the
D
F
Goes to the
Goes to the
M
O
Goes to the Miscellaneous
Other) section.
(
Goes to the
T
* You can use the Quick Keys only when the text of a
drug monograph is on the screen.
➤
Understanding the Quick Keys
Diagnosis section.
Followup section.
Medications section.
Treatment section.
When a monograph is on the screen, you
can use the quick keys to quickly view its
different topics.
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. 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.
➤
Removing Book Cards
CAUTION When you remove a book
card from a platform, information entered in that book card may be erased.
4
Selecting a Book
Changing the Settings
If you have installed two book cards in
the platform, you can select which book
you want to read.
1. Turn the platform on.
CARD
2. Press
.
3. Use or to highlight the book
you want to use.
4. Press
ENTER
to select it.
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 appears
CLEAR
when you press
1. Press
MENU
2. Highlight
fault State, Set Shutoff
Contrast
3. Press
4. Use
ENTER
or to change the setting.
Or press
BACK
.
.
Set Type Size, Set De-
, or
Set
on the Setup menu.
.
to leave the setting
unchanged.
5. Press
ENTER
to select it.
5
Viewing a Demonstration
Using the Outline
Before you start using this book, you may
want to see a brief demonstration.
MENU
Press
and then use the arrow keys to
highlight V iew Demo on the Setup menu.
ENTER
Press
onstration, press
➤
Help is Always at Hand
to select it. To stop the dem-
CLEAR
.
You can view a help message at virtu-
HELP
ally any screen by pressing
BACK
exit help, press
.
. T o
To 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.
You can read any section of this book by
selecting it on the Outline.
1. Press
2. If needed, press
CLEAR
.
MENU
and high-
light the Outline menu.
3. Type a disease name. For example, type
To de-select a letter, press
Arthritis
.
BACK
.
You can also highlight a menu item by
using or .
The slanted arrow indicates that the
menu item has a submenu.
4. When the disease name is highlighted, press
ENTER
to select it.
Note: You can go directly from the
Outline menu to the text of the monograph by holding
ENTER
.
and pressing
✩
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Using the Outline
5. Highlight a topic and then press
For example, select
Diagnosis
6. Highlight a section and press
ENTER
.
ENTER
7. To go quickly to another topic,
use the Quick Keys.
To learn more about the Quick Keys,
refer to “Key Guide.”
8. Use , DN, or
SPACE
to scroll.
9. To go to the next or previous
topic, hold
CAP
and use or
.
10. Press
.
➤ Where Am I?
CLEAR
when finished.
When the text of the book is on the
screen, you can see the Outline location of the current text by pressing
SPEC
(green) or
?
.
To display the full title of a highlighted
✻
item, press
. This is useful when a
?
title ends in ellipses.
To go to the text associated with a
highlighted item, press
back to the text that you were reading,
BACK
press
.
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✻
.
ENTER
. T o go
Using the Index
Use T opics to find disease monographs
quickly. For example to find Noncardiac
pulmonary edema type edema and press
ENTER
.
Type non or use or to highlight
Noncardiac…, and press
ENTER
.
Y ou do not need to type spaces. To delete
a letter use
BACK
. You can also use
or to highlight an index entry.
Use User T erms to search for diseases by
their common names. While you would
type tuberculosis on the Outline menu,
you can type tb on the User T erms menu
ENTER
and press
to find the same mono-
graph.
Use Medications to go to the text of the
disease or a list of diseases that a generic
drug is used for. For example, type war -
farin and press
ENTER
. Use or to
highlight the entry you want, and press
ENTER
.
Use Trades to go to the text of the disease or a list of diseases that a brand
name drug is used for. For example, type
ENTER
coumadin and press
. Use or
to highlight the entry you want, and press
ENTER
.
8
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 100 characters in a
single search. But you cannot search for
short, common words such as the and is.
1. Press
2. Type your search words. For ex-
3. Press
4. Press
SEARCH
(yellow).
ample, type
T o delete a letter, use
cyanosis
.
BACK
.
You do not need to type capitals or
punctuation to find matches.
ENTER
to search.
This is the Outline location of the first
match of your search words.
ENTER
to see the match.
Your search words are boxed.
5. To go quickly to another topic, use
the Quick Keys.
T o learn more about the Quick Keys,
read the “Key Guide.”
6. To see the Outline location of the
next or previous matches, if any ,
✩
hold
7. Press
and press DN or UP.
MENU
to see the matches
listed on the menus.
After a word search, only matching entries are listed on the menus.
8. Use the arrow keys to highlight a
menu item and then press
needed, select a subitem.
9. Press
SEARCH
(yellow) or
CLEAR
clear your search.
9
ENTER
to
. If
Searching for Words
Highlighting Search Words
➤
If You Misspell a Search Word
If you enter a misspelled search word,
a list of corrections appears.
Use to highlight a correction and
then press
➤
Searching for Parts of Words
ENTER
.
If you want to find prefixes, suffixes,
or other parts of words, type an asterisk (✽) in place of the missing letters.
✽
For example, type bacter
ENTER
press
CAP
. To type an asterisk, hold
and press
?
and then
✻
.
Use to highlight a match and then
ENTER
press
.
You can also search for a word by highlighting it in text.
1. At the text, press
T o turn off the highlight, press
ENTER
.
BACK
2. Use the arrow keys to highlight a word.
3. Press
4. Press
ENTER
to search for it.
ENTER
again to see the first
match.
✩
5. Hold
and press DN or UP repeatedly to see the Outline locations of
the next or previous matches, if any.
MENU
6. Press
to see the menu items
with matches.
7. Press
CLEAR
when finished.
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.
Expanding Y our Searches
You can expand a word search up to three
times to find inflected forms of words,
synonyms, and similar words.
1. Press
2. Type a word and then press
3. Press
SEARCH
(yellow).
For example, enter
MORE
(red) to expand the
diabetes
ENTER
.
search.
4. Hold ✩ and press DN or UP repeatedly to see the Outline locations of
the next or previous matches, if any.
MENU
5. Press
to see the matches
listed on the menu.
6. Press
CLEAR
when finished.
➤
Understanding Word Searches
and Expansions
When you search for a word, either by
entering it at the word search screen or
.
by highlighting it in text, headings and
subheadings (in bold type) are
searched first for exact matches. If no
exact matches are found in the headings, then the text is searched for exact
matches.
If no exact matches are found, then the
headings are searched for inexact
matches, such as inflections and synonyms. If no inexact matches are
found in the headings, then the text is
searched for them.
A word search stops as soon as
matches are found at a level described
above. Pressing
MORE
the search to the next level and finds
additional matches, if any. Note: The
number of matches found at a given
search level may be less than at the
previous level.
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(red) continues
Reading Special Markers
Using Notes
Throughout this book, you will find
cross-references (indicated by
’s).
Cross-references take you directly to related material in the book.
1. When you see a in the text,
✩
hold
and press
ENTER
.
Notice the highlight. T o undo the high-
BACK
light, press
2. Press
3. Press
ENTER
BACK
.
.
repeatedly to go back.
On the Outline menu you will find
next to some topics. This is to indicate
that those entries are short monographs.
T o Add a Note
You can add up to 10 notes to the text of
this book to quickly find the sections that
you most often use.
1. When text is on screen, press
LIST
(blue).
2. Press
3. Type your note. A note can contain
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ENTER
to select
Add note
up to 25 characters.
The marker is added to the text
when you add a note.
.
Using Notes
Looking Up Words
in Other Books
T o Find a Note
Once you have added notes to this book, you
can easily find them.
1. Press
2. Use
LIST
(blue).
to highlight a note title.
Your notes are listed by recency.
3. Press
ENTER
to go to that note.
T o Remove a Note
1. Find a in the text of this book.
2. Press
3. To see the full title of the note to
be removed, press
Press
4.
Or press
ing the note.
➤
Removing All Your Notes
You can remove all your notes at one
time by resetting the Medical Book
System. T o learn how, read “Resetting
the Medical Book System.”
WARNING Resetting the
Book System
tion that you have entered in other
installed book cards.
LIST
(blue).
ENTER
BACK
to select
?
Remove note...
to exit without remov-
may erase other informa-
✻
.
Medical
The Medical Book System platform enables
you to look up a word from one installed
book card in the other installed book card.
This book card can send words to and receive words from other book cards. Some
book cards are not able to transfer words. T o
learn if a book card can send or receive
words, read its User’s Guide.
1. Install two book cards in the
platform.
2. Select a book to read.
3. Highlight a word in that book .
You can highlight words in menus,
lists, entries, and other text. T o learn
how to highlight a word in this book,
read “Highlighting Search Words.”
4. Hold ✩ and press
CARD
.
5. Highlight the icon of the other
book card and then press
The word that you highlighted appears
in the other book.
6. Press
ENTER
again, if needed, to
search for the word in the other
book.
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ENTER
.
Resetting the Medical
Book System
Book Card Care
If, due to electrostatic discharge or other
cause, the keyboard fails to respond or the
screen performs erratically, try the steps
below to reset the platform. Perform only
as many steps as required to restore normal operation.
CAUTION Resetting the platform when
book cards are installed may erase settings and information entered in those
book cards. Remove all book cards before
resetting.
1. Hold
CLEAR
and press
ON/OFF
twice.
If nothing happens, try Step 2.
2. Use the end of an opened paper clip
to gently press the reset button on
the back of the platform.
The reset button is recessed in a pin-sized
hole located near the book card slots.
CAUTION Pressing the reset button
with more than light pressure may permanently disable it.
If nothing happens, try Step 3.
3. Remove and reinstall the batteries.
To learn how, read the Medical Book
System platform’s User’s Guide.
• Do not touch the metal contacts on
the book cards.
CAUTION T ouching the electrical contacts with statically charged objects, including your fingers, could erase
information entered in a book card.
• Do not put excessive pressure on
the book cards.
LBS.
• Do not expose the book cards to
heat, cold, or liquids.
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Specifications and Patents
Limited Warranty (outside U.S.)
Model GCC-3012
• size: 5.9 x 4.2 x 0.6 cm
• weight: 0.4 oz
© 1998 Franklin Electronic Publishers,
Inc. All rights reserved.
© 1998 William &Wilkins. All rights re-
served.
Medical Book System and BOOKMAN
are trademarks of Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc.
FCC Notice: Complies with the limits for a Class
B computing device pursuant to Subpart B of part
15 of FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not
cause harmful interference; and (2) This device
must accept any interference received, including
interference that may cause undesired operation.
U.S. Patents 4,490,811; 4,830,618;
5,113,340; 5,153,831; 5,218,536;
5,321,609; 5,396,606; 5,627,726.
German Patents. Reg. No. M9409743.7;
Reg. No. M9409744.5.
Euro. Patent 0 136 379.
PATENTS PENDING.
ISBN 1-56712-487-9
This product, excluding batteries, is
guaranteed by Franklin for a period of
one year from the date of purchase. It will
be repaired or replaced with an equivalent
product (at Franklin’s option) free of
charge for any defect due to faulty workmanship or materials.
Products purchased outside the United
States that are returned under warranty
should be returned to the original vendor
with proof of purchase and description of
fault. Charges will be made for all repairs
unless valid proof of purchase is provided.
This warranty explicitly excludes defects
due to misuse, accidental damage, or
wear and tear. This guarantee does not
affect the consumer’s statutory rights.
This unit may change operating modes due to Electrostatic
Discharge. Normal operation of this unit can be re-established by pressing the reset key,
replacing batteries.
ON/OFF
, or by removing/
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Limited Warranty (U.S. only)
Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. (“Franklin”) warrants to
the end user that this product will be free from defects in material and workmanship for a period of ONE YEAR from the
date of original retail purchase, as evidenced by sales receipt.
On discovery of a defect, the end user must return this product (transportation charges prepaid) either to the dealer from
whom it was purchased or directly to Franklin at the address
given below. Each product returned must include the user’s
name, address, and telephone number, as well as a brief description of the nature of the defect and a copy of the sales receipt as proof of the date of the original retail purchase.
Franklin will, at its sole option, repair or replace with an
equivalent product any product at no further charge to the end
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the product was defective and that such defect arose within the
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or modification by any party, including any dealer, other than
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ANY WAY FOR ANY SERVICE OR MODIFICATION TO
THIS PRODUCT BY ANY PARTY, INCLUDING ANY
DEALER, OTHER THAN FRANKLIN.
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FRANKLIN ELECTRONIC PUBLISHERS, INC.
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609-386-2500
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Index
?* key 3, 10, 13
Arrow keys 4, 6
Automatic shutoff 5
Book cards
installing 4
platform compatibility 2
removing 4
selecting 5
Changing
screen contrast 5
shutoff time 5
type size 5
Color keys
key guide 3
understanding 3
Default state
changing 5
defined 5
Demonstration 6
Direction keys 4
Function keys 3
Help messages 6
Highlighting words 10
Key combinations 3
LIST (blue) 3, 12
Misspellings, correcting
search words 10
MORE (red) 3, 11
NOTE marker 13
Notes
deleting 13
deleting all at once 13
finding 13
Quick Keys 4
understanding 4
Reset button 14
Screen contrast 5
SEARCH (yellow) key 3, 9, 11
Shutoff time 5
SPEC (green) 3, 7
Special markers, reading 12
Tutorial 6
Type size 5
Viewing
cross-references 12
demonstration 6
help messages 6
Word searches, understanding 11
Words, highlighting 10
XREF marker 12
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FRB-28505-00
P/N 7201569 Rev. A
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MBS
Medical Book System
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