Customer Reviews

Michigan Manual of Plastic Surgery (Lippincott Manual Series (Formerly known as the Spiral Manual Series))

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This book covers all the basic info that a plastic surgery resident should know, in a small, pocket size book. You can carry it over, and let's you do quick reviews of diagnostic and therapeutic measures while on the move.

I definitely recommend this book as an aid to have on the go, besides the basic books you should have in your shelf for a deeper reading.

ALthough not as Comprehensive as Grabb and Smiths or another full size textbook, this pocket guide is a really fantastic summary of everything you need to know at the 4th year medical student level or PGY1. It is great to carry around and refresh info before going into a case or right after seeing a consult. I would use it this way so that I was always ready for pimping/questions. I would highly reccomend this book to anyone considering going into plastics or for residents to carry around with them in their junior years.

The only negative about this book I found was there was not enough pictures/diagrams of what they were covering in text. Sometimes this would mean I would know what a technique or method was called and what it was for but could not visualize it or name it when I saw it being done.

Michigan Manual is comprehensive in its scope of plastic surgery topics and should serve as an excellent reference for medical students. I am a fourth year student and found this text invaluable. It is written in outline form and serves as a quick review. It is a great primer for cases, and can be carried around in your coat pocket. Diagrams/photographs of relevant anatomy are sometimes lacking and this text must be supplemented with a heftier reference book for a more complete understanding of certain topics, but this is still the first reference I go to.

This is good book for any student that is the least bit interested in plastic surgery. It will cover all the basic info you need for a plastic elective rotation or away rotation. As a 3rd year who just had a rotation at a private plastic surgery office I definitely recommend and so did my preceptor (he thought it was great to have)!!

Although one can tell that a lot of time and energy was used to write this book, there is little value to this book for the practicing physician.

After a corn thresher accident, I turned to Michigan University students to do my reconstructive surgery.(Wolverines!) Two years later, if asked to describe the experience, I would have to say.....YOU BUTCHERS! YOU BUTCHERED ME! I knew better than to let medical students do my surgery, but I was broke after trying to do it myself.

I thought since they had just beaten Florida in the Capital One Bowl, we all felt like we could do anything we put our mind too. I guess we were wrong. Rich Rodriquez and 1st year med student "Mayday" Montana are classic choke artists. Stopping Tebow was nothing like stopping my bleeding. Putting the "clamp" on Percy Harvin was easier than clamping my femoral artery. In the end, I guess we fans and victims probably feel the same way: We'll give you one more try, but that's it.