Pain Medicine: A Comprehensive Review

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Summary: suprisingly DISAPPOINTED
Review: As a non- pain specialist, i wanted a source of information that would provide useful for clinical practice rather than having to wade through a definitive text. I continually found myself with inadequate depth compared with what i had learned from other texts' chapters OR EVEN information remembered from medical school. It left me continually wanting and was a waste of my time and money. i would recommend the MGH of pain as a source that answered my questions adequately.

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Summary: Stick with the older edition
Review: The quality of the text has remarkably gone down from the original first edition. It appears that non-medical staff have summarized the Big Raj Pain Text into this small useless book. There is no conceptulization for the novice and no review aspect for people preparing for pain boards. I would strongly recommend to stick with the older "orange" edition or consider "Hand Book of Pain Management" by Wall and Melzack.

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Summary: don't buy this book!!!!!!
Review: unless you enjoy editing a book you PAID for, get something else! I'm sitting here 1 week before my test completeing the questions section and finding errors in about 1 in 4 to 5 questions. The answers are wrong based on 1. common medical knowledge 2. direct contradiction to info in the book. 3. direct contradiction to current pain text books 4. sometimes, answers aren't even given (a through d are possible choicesa and e is listed as the answer ina 'choose one format').
As a veteran of US medical examination process including all USMLE exams and anesthesia written and orla boards, I can tell you this is the worst reveiw book I've ever encountered. There are also typo's throughout the text- sentence fragments, etc. Get something else to help you prepare for this board. Dr. Raj obviously doesn't care about his reputation or he wouldn't put his name on such a piece of junk!