Customer Reviews

CURRENT Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2010, Forty-Ninth Edition (LANGE CURRENT Series)

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I basically agree with all the reviews of this book. However, I would strongly NOT recommend the KINDLE version of this text. The ability to search the text is very poor. Most text searches require very precise wording to locate an item of interest and will generally find the first occurrence not the primary entry that the paperback index references.
The only option is therefore to start at the beginning of a relevant chapter and troll through trying to find the reference you're looking for. Hardly helpful in a book that averaged around 2000 pages.

Get the paperback version. Kindle reference texts aren't usable. Perhaps iPad will do it better.....

This is my favorite book to study from. It gives you the essentials to pretty much any health related problem. Ok, so it's not Harrison's book of internal medicine. But it is small enough that I can carry it without getting a hernia.

The Lange CMDT series is worth the money. Nothing in depth, but authoritative and concise. I use this text often in my teaching medical students in China.

Love this book. Great balance between disease etiology, pathophysiology, clinical signs and symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.

This year's Current still lists "CFS" (aka ME) as "Fatigue & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome...p.39" in Chp.2 "Common Symptoms." Need it be pointed out once again that ME is a severe neuro-immune disease not Idiopathic Chronic Fatigue?

I refer the authors to the 2011 ME International Consensus Criteria for accurate information on ME.

I would love to give Current a five-star rating and will very gladly do so if an accurate entry on ME is substituted. I do think it is generally a very good work. Pls take info from the ME ICC, supra, and/or contact me for more info or to find an authority who will draft an accurate piece on ME for you for free. Thank you.

There are some accurate statements in the piece on ME, but many harmful inaccuracies taken from studies or articles by proven frauds such as Simon Wessely and which use the Reeves and Sharpe definitions of "CFS" which are both patently invalid on their face.

Here are a sample of the egregious inaccuracies in this article:
"Persons with confirmed CFS report a much greater frequency of childhood trauma and psychopathology..."
"Acyclovir...and low-dose hydro-cortosone do not improve symptoms."
"There is a greater occurrence of past and current psychiatric diagnoses in patients with this syndrome."
"All patients...should be reassured that full recovery is eventually possible in most cases."

I'm an M4, and I really like this book. It contains information about a lot of diseases encountered in general medicine, but it is not too in-depth. I used it a lot to study for USMLE Step 2CK (in addition to Crush Step 2). I used it as a reference book, reading about topics which I poorly understand. I like the wording. I like the photos in the middle. It is also a great value -- I don't think I even paid $40 for it brand new. It is my opinion that anyone who wants to break the average on medicine boards or USMLE Step 2CK should read from this book throughout M3 year, or at least during your medicine rotation.

This book is easy to read, diseases and conditions are summarized in a student-friendly fashion.

The 2012 edition is there already, and this old edition is still sold, even at a higher price. I almost don't believe this. This edition is good only for medical historians who would compare older methods of treatments against newer ones...

Excellent book. A lot of great information in it. Highly recommend. Worth the money this is a great book gives alot of imformation

This book is a wealth of knowledge on many topics. My only complaint is that the pages are so thin that any highlighting or notes seep through the page. I like to highlight and make my own notes in my books and you simply can't do that with this book.