Customer Reviews

Clinical Neurology (LANGE Clinical Medicine)

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Excellent book on Neuro for the healthcare professional that is not a neuro specialist. I am an ER PA and find this a useful refernce in everything from the neuro exam and it's etiology. This book has a similar format to the Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment.

This is the required text for my medical school's neurology clerkship. At first, I was intimidated by using a 400 page book for a four week rotation followed by the shelf but this book is concise and easy to read for a 3rd year medical student who had a half decent neuropathophysiology class during second year. Other more concise review books such as blueprints or NMS are almost as long and do not provide the depth necessary (in my opinion) to tackle one of the toughest shelf exams. There is a good review of imaging and great illustrations of anatomy which really can really expediate review before the test. This book paired with pre-test neurology was all I needed for this rotation/shelf.

Overall great book, clear, concise, with good topic coverage. If you have limited time like all med students this book hits the main points well and has lengthy ddx on many conditions. If you are getting this book for anything other than an introductory course or a review book I would hesitate to recommend it so strongly.

Really grateful, this book helped me a lot in my Neurology rotation when you do not have so much time and need to refresh your memory with a fast review which includes comparisons and hints that guide you to reach a diagnosis, however, nothing will stick to your mind unless you reinforce what you read in this book with some exercises' and clinical vignette to put every thing together (for instance, Lange pretest and case files). Really I did not need more than that at this time.

This book has just the right amount of information for a third year neurology clerkship; it was a good reference for me to get a decent enough background on essential topics to be competent on the ward.

However, if you want to go into neurology it might be helpful to have a more comprehensive reference, and if you want to study for the shelf, a text with questions and answers (like pre-test or case files) may be more helpful.

This book is quite complete and a good general resource for Neuro whether in a Neuro rotation or in Residency. It can be frustrating at times because it is not entirely complete (tracks are not covered well), and information is spread out in different sections of the book instead of being in one chapter. Overall though, not a bad buy.

As a PA this is a great general reference for neurological system.