It’s Not All Puppies and Kittens

I admit to having a kind of short attention span. I get distracted easily and I’m really good at procrastinating. That said, I’m currently actually making progress with a set of case reports for a continuing education course that are, say, a few months overdue. On top of actually writing the reports, the most frustrating thing about the whole process is Microsoft Word’s inability to deal with medical terms. Writing the reports is one thing. The seemingly eternal process of ‘right click –> add to dictionary’ for simple little words like ‘oesophagus’ and ’supraorbital’ and ‘hypothalamic’gets really old, really fast.

I figured there had to be an easier way, but never did anything about it. However, I’ve just come across a custom dictionary called MeDic. I have just installed it and like magic, it’s reduced the number of red squiggles under words to zero. This is of course a neccessity, lest I find the red e-pen too confrontational and aggressive like the poor school kiddies.

I recommend trying it. It’s tiny and it rocks. Did I mention that it was free?