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Hematology in Practice

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Many technical and numerical errors in this book. Mislabeled diagrams and explanations. Too many to find on one's own free time. If you bought this book be prepared to comb over inconsistencies, because you'll be the editor of this book. Of course if you are reading this review and the one above, do not get it, refund was pocket change, really. Not worth keeping for reference. Get the Rodak's book.

Hematology in Practice is an extremely confusing and annoying book. Many of the diagnostic numbers throughout the book don't match the numbers at the front of the book. In addition, it seems the author has either traded clarity for obscurity or has refused to use an editor. If you're unversed in clinical hematology, then be prepared to do some extra research to find out what the author is talking about.

Within the first few chapters, it was evident that editing was absent. Inconsistencies in information from front cover to tables within the chapters, and information given in the testing section (Chapt 20) became a huge source of frustration. In what lab do they routinely draw a sodium citrate tube LAST as was recommended on page 243? Formula for MCH is NOT Hgb/RBC x 100, nor is MCHC Hgb/Hct x 10 as shown on pg 25.
This book should not be used as a college textbook.

I used this book for an MLT hematology course. I found similar difficulties with this book as other reviewers, but despite the apparent difficulties, that I seem to encounter in many technical books, I did learn some basics from this text. But when it came to the more technical info, I had a difficult time understanding the author in some places. But I liked the presentation and didn't think it was that bad overall -fair.

In addition to the reviewers' comments above (that I wholeheartedly agree with, but which some have been corrected in the 3rd ed.), this text is so truncated and disorganized it is very difficult for students to follow. For example, Chapter 2 jumps into CBC and morphological classification of anemias before it even discusses Hemoglobin, which is located in Chapter 4. In essence, what this means that students have to be assigned readings throughout the text, sometimes a page at a time, to get all the pertinent info for them to critically think about CBCs and how to interpret them. Also, as the illustrations and instructor resources showing disorders, diseases, and even hematopoiesis are so limited, you will need to supplement this text with a very solid hematology atlas and/or other instructional aids or your students just will not be able to grasp even basic, normal cell identification. Also,, if you have a 2+2 lab program or are considering this for an MLS level course, think again. It is geared exclusively to MLT level competencies. Anyone looking for a solid Hemo and Coag text-- I would steer clear of this and consider McKenzie, Turgeon, or Harmening (among other excellent choices).