Customer Reviews

Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 17th Edition (Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (Single Vol.))

5 star:		(26)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

Well... what do I say about the "BIBLE" of medicine...Its getting better everytime..Now with lots of color pictures,newer chapters and the DVD feature,learning with Harrisons has never been easy...and Fun.This is the best edition to come out yet..
One word though... The Single volume edition is bulky.. I would prefer to buy the double volume edition anyday...just for the ease of carrying.
The newer 3 D reconstruction images are great.
Great Job by the Harrisons' team... KEEP IT UP!!!!!

This is an exceptional book. The level of coverage on any given topic is often 'the final authority' when other books don't have the answers.

I have a considerably older version of this book circa 1978 or so and decided to update my resources for a recertification exam. While this served as an excellent reference, I did find the information cumbersome to find, with the extensive index often directing me to a single instance of the item I was searching for as part of the label of a photograph (with no particularly useful information in the photograph), for instance, sometimes requiring me to look up 10 different points and reference the pdfs on the DVD to find an answer. In short the referencing system in the index left me wasting a lot of time to find information that was a bit scatterred. This tended to make me use the book as a last resort rather than a first choice.

The book is such a masterpiece of medical knowledge that giving it less than 5 stars would be unthinkable to me, but it could still be improved upon. One suggestion might be an index added to the DVD with a sophisticated search mechanism with some annotations or excerpts giving a preview of where the 'bulk' of information might be found. The quality of the information is exceptional throughout the text.

I just bought the kindle edition. It seems to be working ok except for the search feature and the index (in the back of the book) is not hyperlinked making it completely useless. The figures on kindle have poor contrast but they are readable, especially when zoomed - but the figures take some concentrating on because of the poor contrast quality.

I contacted amazon and they are looking into the search problem. I will contact amazon again and ask if they will look in to the index not being hyperlinked.

I imagine the search problem may have to do with the massive size of this book 128 mb (i'd recommend NOT using whispernet for this one)

The search feature is related to a digital search index (similar to google desktop indexing your computer). There is obviously a bug with this step causing the search error.

EDIT: I think they removed the kindle version from the website until the search feature bug is figured out. My hunch is it is a firmware problem and not a e-book problem.

Well, I belive that it's a bit overcomplicated. I've got the 14th edition and it is more practical. The 17th has way to many unnecesary charts, tables, however they took out a lot of important tables, guidelines wich were important. Some chapters are reduced 50% (eg. pneumonias)......I am a bit dissapointed i was expecting more.

This is a very comprehensive book that is required for my class. It has a lot of valuable information.

Giving a poor review beacuse you bought the complete text in ONE large hardcover version versus the other Hardcover Two Volume version is misleading.

This is a GREAT book for home reading, and yes you can look up current articles and have a huge pile of medical information that may be the most current but this book puts it all together for you.

If you liked reading Robbins Pathology as an M2, just buy this book for your M3...and choose 1)one big volume version or 2)the split 2 volume version...both are COMPLETE texts that add up to the same number pages. :)

Harrison's continues to be the best book for medical students learning Internal Medicine and a complete reference book for practicing physicians. The new formatting and colored charts and images are the best so far , compared to previous editions , this edition really enhances the learning experience. I hope that any future edition of the DVD will have better navigation links. The textbook is excellent; the DVD leaves room for improvement. Overall: a must have in any clinician's library.

Miguel Isaza
Orlando-Florida

Harrison's is a great book to pick up for just about any medical topic, from etiology to treatment. It is a bit dense to read as a sole source for rotations, but Harrison's has the answers.

I got a phone call from my brother from India and he asked me to check if 17th edition was available in the USA and I told him YES. He was in euphoria and asked me to purchase and send it to him :) He is working on his MD right now. So we discussed for a few minutes what this book entails and why he thought it was a such a great and the best book on internal medicine and he was pretty descriptive in pointing out differences between this and other books out there so I was pretty convinced at the end of our conversation that it is indeed the bible of internal medicine. And the best part, Amazon shipped this 12 lbs book for just $9.95 to India. Had I purchased this somewhere else and shipped it myself via USPS, I would have spent at least $50-70 on shipping alone. So I am glad that Amazon saved me few bucks there. Thanks Amazon. Keep it up.

Great for everything medicine. DDx, Tx, Rx, for anything I could think of. This is essential to the learning process