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Pathology (Saunders Text and Review Series)
by: Edward F. Goljan |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 616.07 EAN: 9780721670232 ISBN: 0721670237 Label: W.B. Saunders Company Manufacturer: W.B. Saunders Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 518 Publication Date: 1998-05 Publisher: W.B. Saunders Company Studio: W.B. Saunders Company |
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  - Get the older version, don't waste your money (or your time)This book is a waste and is no longer a "rapid review" book. The book is over 600 pages and full of run on sentences and mistakes. The book was never edited and golgan should be embarrassed. Rating:  - The best book for Step 1, Step 2, and the rest of medical schoolI am really disappointed this book is out of print. Linda Costanzo's book was republished (and it should have been) but this one wasn't and it is disappointing that the material in this book was lost. It and the companion review book (STARS Pathology Review) are the only place in which ALL of Dr. Goljan's materials are collected in one place (well, legally, anyway). I wish I had bought 2 copies when I had the chance. This book is very different than Robbins. Robbins never covers physiology, biochemistry, clinical presentations of diseases, anatomy, pharmacology, etc. etc. Robbins just tells you about the pathology of the disease (and that's fine because it is a pathology text book). STARS Pathology, on the other hand, lets you understand the entire disease and how everything fits together. I bought this book before second year of medical school in 2002 and I have read it from cover to cover 5 or 6 times since then for classes, Step 1, clerkships, Step 2, and my internship. Anytime, I need to review a disease (and I want to UNDERSTAND IT and not just memorize it) I first look at this book. I really think this an amazing book and I wish Dr. Goljan would find someway to publish a new version of it. Dr. Goljan has a way of focusing on the HOW and the WHY that no other author or teacher seems to be able to do. Also, he has the ability to integrate things from several different subjects to talk about one disease or symptom or lab test. So memorization is cut down to a minimum and real learning takes place. Just as an example, in the 3 pages in which he covers alcoholism (in the GI chapter, I think) he covers EVERYTHING about alcoholism and he puts it all together in a way you can understand it: First, the biochemistry, the anatomy, the histology, and the normal physiology. Then he starts to explain how all of this gets screwed up by alcohol. So after reading it you are able to understand WHY and WHERE you get varices, WHY you get the symptoms of disulfiram, WHY you get fatty liver, peripheral neuropathy, and pancreatitis, WHY you precipitate Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome by giving Thiamine to a patient without first giving glucose, WHY AST is elevated over ALT, WHY GGT is elevated, etc. etc. I prefer this type of book to one that just lists symptoms and never gives you anyway to put them together. Yes, you can buy Rapid Review Pathology (also by Dr. Goljan) and it has about 80% of the information in this book and it's pretty good. But the diagrams and charts (which you will use the most to study) aren't really as good as the figures and diagrams in STARS Pathology. And some of the explanations and integrations aren't in Rapid Review. I have Rapid Review and use it also, but it just doesn't explain and integrate quite as well as this book. Rating: - best ,easy, bookThe book is good. Easy to comprehend and interesting to read. It has not very lenghty details and monotonus pathology features.Topics and concise and high yeild. Relevance in usmle part 1 prep is yet to be explored by me .The cd had question and answers.I thought it would contain lecture from goljan so, that was a bit disappointing.Good to have the book. Rating:  - Only reviewing the CD portionI've only used the CD questions, and so this will be limited to that portion. The questions are very helpful, good clinical stories with memorably difficult questions that help keep issues in mind longterm. That said, the CD is really poorly designed, and the formatting of the exam is quite poor. If you finish taking an exam, and want to review the ones you got incorrect, it almost always has errors in which ones you got "wrong" as well as how many. There's also no memory, so you cant select questions you havent done yet, which is a problem if any section has more than 50 questions, b/c that's the max you can set the exam for....so I dont know how you're supposed to get around that. That said, the questions there are great. It's better than a pre-test version of the material, color pictures are very helpful, normally excellent explanations of issues. Would be a 4 or 5 star product (the CD) if there was some better organization of the technology Rating: - Too much hypeI found this book absolutely useless for the purpose of USMLE. Old, outdated and crammed with never tested facts. This is a textbook after all. BRS Pathology is the best book for quick comprehensive review. Don't worth money nor time. |
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