Pathology

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Summary: the authentic ,systemic,and the best book I have read
Review: 1.Including traditional knowledges and the latest advancement keep pace with advancing of basic and clinic improvement,closly associated with clinical application; 2.Systemic written made easily learning and reviewing rapidly,more fansinating is it's made-of-art photograghs and illusions ,tables and so on. 3.Regular revisement making it a state-of-date new book. As a postgraduate student major in oncopathology of China,it is not easy to touch such a excellent book for inland area as in Henan due to its poor economic and information ultility conditions.As a young student eager to absorb new learnings,entangled by so many difficulties can not keep me from improving myself.Now through World Wide Web,I CAN acquire many useful knowledges and informations. Have a nice day! Sincerely yours Gangliu

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Summary: Incredible
Review: How come all one-star-rating reviews seem written by one same guy? You hate your professor, but please do it in other ways. Don't confuse readers online.

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Summary: Great Pictures, Good Explanations, Often Wordy
Review: I thought that this book was pretty good, although it may not be written for a medical student as much as a path resident. Excellent pictures, and good descriptions. I felt that the skin, kidney, and bone section were weak and wordy, but the blood, GI, cardiac, and neuro sections were well put together. I have not read robbins, although I think the general consensus is that is the book to use. The bottom line is I liked this book, and felt that I got a good pathology education from it.

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Summary: Not ready for publication
Review: If I didn't know better I'd say that this was little more than a collection of drafts. I was truely surprised by how disorganized and inconsistant this book is. I found several mistakes and the text meanders and is so verbose that the information is inaccessible. Simple concepts are made cloudy and more complex concepts such as immunology or the clotting cascade are utterly indecipherable. The graphics are adequate at best but the vast majority of micrographs lack any arrows pointing out histologic features - a necessity for any teaching text. Also of note is a lack of continuity between chapters. It seems that each chapter was written without any common guidelines. Similarly, it is very evident that the text was not edited for content or accuracy by the editors, Rubin and Farber. Factual errors are very common and this is inexcusable for a book of this price. On a secondary note, the paper it is printed on is so thin that highlighters bleed right through to the next page. Any student of pathology would NOT be served well by this text. I would not even consider recommending this book until it undergoes a cover-to-cover re-write. Shame on Lippincott, an otherwise respectable publisher, for releasing such a sub-standard book! Virtualy every other pathology text I have seen is a vast improvement over this one. In particular, Robbins' Pathologic Basis of Disease is an exemplary text and illustrates how things SHOULD be done.

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Summary: NOT a wise choice
Review: If you have any interest in learning pathology this is NOT the book to choose. As a medical student who is forced to use it I can speak from experience and say that it is possibly the worst text I have ever encountered. We are forced to use it since the editors are at my school. However, virtually every lecturer we have had points out all the errors and contradictions in the book and then refers us to other texts for better information. The writing is also extrememly uneven and there is virtually no integration of information between chapters. Every chapter seems to be like an entirely different book. Also of note is the distinct lack of gross images. For example, the skin chapter has many histologic images but only TWO gross images. Contrast this with the Robbins Pathology text whch has a histologic image AND the corresponding gross image next to it. So, if you have any interest in learning pathology I would STRONGLY advise staying away from this book and selecting Robbin's Pathologic Basis of Disease. That is the book recommended my most of our professors and with good reason. There is a reason over 80% of all medical schools use Robbins and only about a dozen use Rubin and Farber.

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Summary: Nice pictures. Could use a little more organization.
Review: Some of the chapters (e.g. Kidney) could be a little less wordy and more organized.

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Summary: A very poor text
Review: This is one of the poorer examples of a medical textbook that I have yet encountered. It is poorly organized and lacks helpful formatting. Even after a cursory review I found it riddled with inaccuracies and errors. There were several contradictions between chapters and even within chapters! It is exceedingly verbose and vague and filled with poor grammar, such as double negatives. If you really want a good path text, Robbins is light years beyond Rubin & Farber in both form and substance.

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Summary: GENUINELY BRILLIANT.
Review: You can find anything you need to know about, full of color pictures and diagrams. Necessary in your home library. One of the best books, in wich you can study in for a final, serious pathology exam, and pass. Guaranteed.