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Clinical Radiology Made Ridiculously Simple

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As neurology resident, I had to at head MRI, and CT. Yes there are great detailed review books and textbooks, but the chapter in this amazing book about both CT, MRI of head was "savior" for me. In my first few weeks, I needed something fast to read and most importantly to make this "dry" topic enjoyable which I easily found in those 20 pages.. I believe that not just Students should read it, but every resident doing neurology or rotating in Neurology, it is only 20 pages, easy to digest, and hard to be forgotten. I will add that I scanned the other chapters, Chest, Abdomen I found them very enjoyable too. Another success of this series

I used this short text as a companion to my 4th year clinical radiology elective. The brief chapters focused on the common aspects of radiology, i.e., chest, abdomen, c-spine, axial skeleton, limbs, and head CT. It hammered home the key points of the lectures and cases which we were presented with on a daily basis. It is easy to read and understand and the radiographs are clear, unlike many texts which inadequately try to reproduce images on paper. I read this easily within a week, putting forth only 15-30 minutes of effort a night, and it certainly could be absorbed in one sitting. Really a must for 3rd and 4th year students as well as interns.

As a 3rd year med student, this book filled in the blanks I seemed to have missed 1st year in the radiographic part of my anatomy class. It contains the important basics accompanied by lots of clear radiographs illustrating the points under discussion. With good pictures and pertinent text only, you can count on what is in this text to be what you need to know to handle the basics. I found the skeletal section particularly helpful, as well as the introduction help master the concepts quickly. This book really helped expedite my learning, and additionally, my enjoyment of the topic. As a "getting the basics" text to help with tests, clinical rounds in 3rd and 4th year, and boards, I would recommend this book highly. I only wish I had known about it for 1st year!

This is an appropriate introduction to radiography for a third-year medical student. It is not a complete text on radiology by any means, but it goes through what you should know about X-rays and CTs by the time you get your M.D. For further instruction on CXRs, I suggest Felson's or Chest X-Rays Made Easy. For getting good with KUBs, I suggest Abdominal X-Rays Made Easy. That being said, there are some decent web tutorials out there on reading films (and an especially good Head CT in Trauma tutorial out there on the web). Use your friend, google.

I am first year student at the St. George's University in Grenada, West Indies.

This book made me understand the basic concepts in Anatomy. Before reading this excellent book I had a hard time reading X-rays and understanding anatomical structures. I used it as a great supplement to my Anatomy book. It brought Anatomy all together. I have loaned the text to couple of first term students and they are thanking me now since Anatomy is made simple for them and they are doing well on the practical exams. I can not wait to take the Clinical Radiology since I have seen all the classical bone fractures, "cardiac shadow" and many more X-rays in this excellent book full of fun and helpful diagrams and comments. Every medical student should have this book from day one of medical school.

Many of the "ridiculously simple" books are excellent starting points, but I am sorry to say that this book is not one of them. It has too few "normals", and too few images in general. Many of the pictures are just simple schematics, which are basically useless in practice unless you already have some idea of what the actual radiographs look like. If you already have some knowledge of radiology this book is a nice refresher, but if you're starting from ground zero I recommend The Wolf Files and/or a standard textbook instead of this book.

I'm a Med-school student at Stanford School of Medicine.

Before getting this book I had a heck of a time trying to read X-rays. But the simple to remember tips and tricks in this book made it much easier. For example the illustrations and cartoons makes it easy to remember to check and look for things like a Jefferson Fracture of the spinal column.

I definately recommend this book to all medical professionals!

This is one of the recommended texts for the Radiology elective in our school. It's excellent comparing to other introduction texts. I read this text and Felson; Felson is great to introduce principles of imaging, and how to read chest Xray. This text is excellent to include most important abnormal and normal findings that a medical student should know. Very readable as well.

I am a family nurse practitioner, I work in an urgent care where I order a lot of head CTs, I think the chapter in this book on the subject is excellent. There are a lot of "within normal limits" films in this book, there could be more common abnormal films. Great beginning book, and a relatively simple read.

One of the best of the "Ridiculous" series. Helps the reader get a handle on radiology at a level we only wish residents and attendings would put forth!! A bargain!!!