Everything You Need Know about Medical Tests (Springhouse Everything You Need to Know Series) [Paperback]

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Book Description

ISBN-10: 0874349338 | ISBN-13: 978-0874349337 | Publication Date: January 1996

This work provides information on: blood tests; urine tests; x-rays; biopsies; CAT scans; MRI scans; and other types of medical tests. Each entry offers a description of the test and why it is done, what happens before the test, whether the test carries risks and normal and abnormal results. Logos attract the reader to practical sidebars giving self-help hints and explanations of important body organs and glands.

Product Details

• Paperback: 768 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (January 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0874349338
• ISBN-13: 978-0874349337
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,791,149 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Everything you need to know about wasting paper and time., December 29, 2001

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Dana E. Creasy (Bloomsburg, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Everything You Need Know about Medical Tests (Springhouse Everything You Need to Know Series) (Paperback)

I wanted to give this book ZERO stars, but there is no such rating.

Want to know what to expect BEFORE you go to the doctor to have a test done? This book will tell you in nauseating detail, over, and over again. It wastes page upon page repeating, word for word, what they do during a blood test.

If you want the OLD names for tests, this book uses them all. If you want to understand the results of your blood tests or any other tests, find another book.

If you want to know what those abbreviations mean in your test results, don't look here, they aren't there.

This book has NO information worth reading at all. I wasted my money and time buying and reading it.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All about medical tests -- in plain English, April 27, 2000

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Matt Cahill (Lawrenceville, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Everything You Need Know about Medical Tests (Springhouse Everything You Need to Know Series) (Paperback)

Like its title states, this book tells you all you need to know about just about medical test. It's clear, straightforward, and filled with helpful information.