Greenfield's Surgery: Scientific Principles And Practice (with Solutions Package) (Mulholland, Greenfield's Surgery) [Hardcover]

Michael W. Mulholland (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 078175626X | ISBN-13: 978-0781756266 | Publication Date: January 2006 | Edition: 4

"The Greenfield Solution" gives you a complete print and multimedia package consisting of the full-colour textbook, "Greenfield's Surgery: Scientific Principles and Practice, Fourth Edition", plus instant access to a wealth of online resources to benefit your daily practice, residency, board review, and teaching. In addition to the print book, you'll receive instant access to the Website featuring the fully searchable complete content of the "Greenfield Textbook". The online textbook is cross-linked to step-by-step descriptions of the most common surgical procedures and pearls of operative techniques from the classic "Mastery of Surgery" book. Also included is a complete image bank consisting of the full-colour images from the "Greenfield Textbook" that is downloadable for use in PowerPoint, and handy PDA downloads of essential on-the-go surgical information taken from the "Greenfield Textbook". For those preparing for the ABSITE exam, the boards, or recertification examinations, we also include on the Website the entire text of "The Review of Surgery" with an easy-to-use test bank. This completely updated Fourth edition, not available in print form and only available as part of "The Greenfield Solution", provides multiple-choice questions, answers, and rationales behind correct answers. The online review module is organized to correspond with chapters from the "Greenfield Textbook" for an easy in-depth review. The Website also includes access to current abstracts from the "Annals of Surgery", as well as monthly postings of classic articles, help wanted ads, and more. Features include: a copy of the full-colour; print text text of "Greenfield's Surgery: Scientific Principles and Practice, Fourth Edition" providing a full-colour text and comprehensive coverage of all types of surgery by integrating basic science with clinical practice; access to an easy-to-navigate; website integrating all the resources you need for daily practice, board review, and teaching at your fingertips; full content of the "Greenfield Textbook" online with quick-searching capabilities; links to illustrated and step-by-step instructions to the common surgical procedures taken from "Mastery of Surgery" to clearly guide you through the decision-making process of operative techniques. The illustrated procedures include editorial comments throughout. It includes: a complete image bank of the full-colour images from "Greenfield's Textbook", searchable and downloadable to PowerPoint; key information from the "Greenfield's Textbook" downloadable to your PDA for quick access while on the go; the full text of "The Review for Surgery", a comprehensive online review cross-referenced to the "Greenfield Textbook", with multiple-choice questions, answers, and rationales for correct answersuonly available as part of "The Greenfield Solution"; classic articles, current abstracts, key updates and more from the "Annals of Surgery".

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Surgeons will enter the new millenium with a textbook of surgery that is the newest, most comprehensive, single-volume work published to date." - JAMA --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 2277 pages
• Publisher: Williams & Wilkins; 4 edition (January 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 078175626X
• ISBN-13: 978-0781756266
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.7 x 2.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,010,404 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Heavily detailed, sometimes without a point, February 17, 2009

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Frenchy the fry "Frenchy the fry" (St. Louis, MO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Greenfield's Surgery: Scientific Principles And Practice (with Solutions Package) (Mulholland, Greenfield's Surgery) (Hardcover)

Overall, the breadth and depth of this text was very good. There is no doubt that if one seeks to understand the basic principles as well as clinical application of general surgery, this text is an excellent addition to any surgical library.

The trauma, vascular, and most GI sections are fairly well written. Though each chapter is quite lengthy, there is a lack of uniform length and clarity from chapter to chapter which makes the reading style somewhat difficult. At times, chapter authors regurgitate statistics and major findings to provide an "evidence-based text," Unfortunately, the dizzying array of numbers and references are incohesive without major conclusions being drawn by the chapter authors. It's easy to find oneself at the end of a 30 page chapter and asking, "so what were the major take -home points?" Though many chapters emphasize basic science relevance, a balance to the clinical side is at times lacking, and leaves the house officer with unsatisfied experience.

Overall, though, the information is plentiful. At times the reading is verbose - but then perhaps that's the point of this text.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Plain excellent, February 8, 2006

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J. Leon "2nd yr surgical resident" (Santo Domingo, D.R.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Surgery: Scientific Principles and Practice (Free CD-ROM with Return of Enclosed Card) (Hardcover)

I came across this book back in early 2002, and since my best friend had the Sabiston and we were on a budget, i bought this one. This is deffinetly the best and the most complete book i could have bought on general surgery. It takes you from anatomy trough physiology in each pathology you read upon. Would recomend it to anybody, either finishing medschool, or starting your residency in General Surgery.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not the best core surgical textbook, November 24, 2009

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Julie A. Rizzo - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Greenfield's Surgery: Scientific Principles And Practice (with Solutions Package) (Mulholland, Greenfield's Surgery) (Hardcover)

Many typos found throughout the pages and overall poorly written chapters. The exception is the vascular chapters which are helpful. I would recommend Sabiston over Greenfield as a core surgical text.