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Chassin's Operative Strategy in General Surgery

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Good books on operative surgery are difficult to find. This book offers a much clearer understanding of operative general surgery. The detailed text is aided with helpful illustrations. It describes many of the pitfalls that surgeons encounter in day to day practice. The price may be off-putting but to the serious surgical trainee, they will see this book as an invaluable investment.

I know that Zollinger's and Sabiston are the standard reccommended readings. If you have the money to go ahead and get them, but if you are on a budget like most residents the one book you can't pass up is Chassin's. It is clear, current, offers basic tips and explains common pitfalls. The diagrams and pictures are fabulous. You will definately be prepared for any OR case if you review this book the night before.

I've been practicing for 3 years now, and I still refer to this book. It's a very practical text with clear illustrations, good text, and potential pitfalls. It also includes "legacy" procedures -- those operations that don't come up too often, but you will still need to perform once in a while -- and it's nice to brush up on them.

I've got Zollinger, Sabiston, and a couple older atlases -- but this is my favorite.

Chassin's operative strategy in General Surgery has the most common and essential procedures with the step by step operative technique(s) for use by any general surgery resident at any level. It does cover basic and advanced laparoscopy, choice of incision and closures, knot tying and suture strategies. As a PGY-2 surgery resident who spends 1/3 of the year at a busy private state of the art "Operative Factory" where the Intern operates about 4 days a week and and sometimes during the night on-call, this is a very useful guide.

It is also an easy read and excellent companion to any thorough General Surgery Text.

Excellent content however I agree with the previous review that this book is not quite up to publishers standards. I bought from amazon not a third party but the binding is already falling apart (one week old) and the pages look like it was printed on computer paper not standard text book paper. Otherwise could be great but not worth $178 if it is going to fall apart.

Excellent illustrations for the topics which are covered
But does not include some of the vital topics like vascular