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Summary: Frank Netter's Illustrations are all Masterpeices
Review: February 19, 2002 I have owned, studied, and used Frank Netter, MD's anatomical illustrations throughout my medical career for over twenty-four years now: first as a medical student, then later in residency training, and later on in my clinical practice and when teaching and lecturing students/younger doctors myself.
Dr. Netter's illustrations are beautiful, remarkably demonstrative and they make learning just a little more human anatomy a real joy. If Leonardo DaVince was alive today and shown a copy of Netter, I think Da Vinci would be green with envy...
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Summary: Excellent Atlas A must for anyone taking anatomy
Review: This is a must for anyone that takes anatomy especially first year med students. Almost all pictures are clear and understandable and the author makes use of english names not latin like other atlases.
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Summary: Loved it
Review: There are those who love Netter's and those who hate Netter's. If you are a visual learner, like me, then you will love it. He has a gift for drawing things with the detail that any Gross Anatomy course requires while keeping the drawings clear and easy to understand. In fact, I found this atlas so helpful that I almost never used our actual anatomy textbook. This book is the quintessential atlas for Gross Anatomy. I would never have survived the course without it.
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Summary: A solid atlas
Review: Anatomy is learned primarily from the cadaver and the atlas. The key is to find the atlas which helps the most. Dr. Netter has done a fine job with this work, but I believe that another atlas are more condusive to studying anatomy. If he included text, radiographs, and muscle charts, and cut down on the labels per drawing, I would join the masses of Netter users. Please don't go out and buy this atlas because everyone tells you how great it is. Look at Rohen's, Grant's, and Clemente's for a comparison before you buy.
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Summary: An absolute essential for any med student!
Review: They say "a picture is worth a thousand words" and in this case it could not be more true. There is no better way to understand anatomy then to use this atlas. This book is an excellent investment. You will pull it out again for your USMLE review and for your surgery rotation. The most important thing about anatomy is to understand relations of structures and the best way to understand relations is to use an atlas.
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Summary: Even clearer than the cadaver !
Review: I really admire Mr. Netter's talent for painting, and the ability to connect abstract medical concept with complcated human gross anatomy. While I was studying anatomy, sometimes there were too many people around the cadaver bench in the lab. I always read the atlas first, then go by the bench when there's less people around. It's amazing that with the atlas, I can easily, without any difficulty, catch out right away the definite artery, nerve, tendon, or even any tiny orgen! I think, that's why medical students all around the world use Netter's atlas, and only Netter's atlas to study anatomy.
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Summary: 1st year med or dental student? You MUST get this atlas!!
Review: I just finished my first semester of medical school, which included gross anatomy, and I can't emphasize enough how incredibly helpful Netter's atlas was! At the beginning of the semester we were told that we would learn about 3500 new "terms" over the course of the semester. This number is overwhelming, especially when you consider that one "term" may be something as long as "extensor digiti minimi brevis muscle" or "anterior superior pancreatoduodenal artery." Over time and with Netter's help, anatomy came together for me (and my classmates, who also use Netter's atlas religiously) and began to make sense. The illustrations that Frank Netter has produced as very clear and easy to understand. I appreciate that he tends to devote entire pages to a single entity, such as just arteries, or nerves, or lymphatics. This is enormously helpful when you are trying to visualize how a system (i.e., circulation) works together. However, Netter also includes numerous (color-coded!) illustrations showing how these systems all interact. We all began to wish that our bodies were also "color-coded," but that's life. In conclusion, don't let anatomy scare you! It is overwhelming but very manageable with Netter's help. Look over this atlas every day after class and lab, highlight it like crazy, and review it whenever you can. It works! I recommend it to people whenever I can.
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Summary: Has helped me in amy application of work
Review: I happen not to be a student studying anatomy, dissection and medicine but am an opera singer. I use the anatomical data to help me (and others that i teach) understand, apply efficiently and use ergonomically all the muscles of the throat, the intercostals, abdominals and all related areas (including all ligaments etc.). When I viewed the book and was made aware of the muscles, and associated systems with that, then applied the information newly gained, the improvement was vast. When i then applied to my students of singing, their improvement was vast. I now INTEND to get this book for myself (probably the softback)for closer study, scrutiny and general learning.
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Summary: A must have for Medical Transcription
Review: I have not purchased this book yet. It will definitely be my next purchase. I have seen so many reviews of this book on the MT boards, and evey one has praised this book as the bible of anatomy. It is supposed to be much easier to use than Gray's Anatomy. I am going to purchase the bonus package that includes the CD-rom.
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Summary: This Is One of The Best Picture Anatomy Books Out There!
Review: I Used this book during my first and second term of Anatomy classes at the Swedish Institue Of Massage Therapy in New York City. In April of 2000 I graduated from the school and I am still using this book for studying for my state boards. I do believe this book will be used thoughout the rest of my career as a massage therapist. The picture are wonderful and so real looking, it starts with the bones, bony landmarks, the muscles, tendons, arteries, ligaments, organs ect ect... I would recommend this book to any one that want to explore the human body in a visual Way. [...]
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