Pathology [Paperback]

Arthur S. Schneider (Author), Philip A. Szanto (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0683076086 | ISBN-13: 978-0683076080 | Publication Date: February 15, 1993

500+ Board-type questions reflecting new changes in the Boards...laboratory medoicine included throughout.

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Williams & Wilkins (February 15, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0683076086
• ISBN-13: 978-0683076080
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,738,871 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A comprehensive review, readable, good tables, January 13, 1999

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This review is from: Pathology (Paperback)

This book is written for Step 1 of the National Boards. This is a comprehensive review of pathology. The information is clearly written with the most improtant points in bold letters. This makes the matterial easy to absorb. In addition, the information is strictly categorized, and there is little irrelevant and wasteful writing. You will find this quick reading (for a comprehensive review) simply because of the way it is written. Furthermore, each chapter is followed with a short but thorough Q&A review section. Another additional feature is the frequent use of very useful tables, which often give a good understanding of a whole chapter. Although the book is thorough, I have never regretted having read it. I have found it useful even though I did not specialize in Pathology. It is enlightening in just about any general specialty one may be interested in. The book's only short coming is its number of pictorials which are few and far in between.

28 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Written when some of its users were still in junior high, October 28, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Pathology (Paperback)

This book has strong word-of-mouth press, as well as a glowing review from the First Aid book. Its thickness is intimidating, especially for the BRS series, but the pages aren't too dense, so that it can be covered in its entirety in four days or less. Without having compared it to its competitors, I can still say that it does cover just about everything necessary to study pathology. Sometimes the book is a little skimpy on details that, in my own case, were filled in by previous overlapping study through other subjects.

A more substantive complaint is that the book is in dire need of an update: it was published in 1993. For example, the sections on lymphoma classifications and HIV treatment are hopelessly outdated. Along the same lines, the questions at the end of each section and the comprehensive exam at the end don't reflect the current USMLE testing style. For one thing, about 70% of the questions in this book are phrased negatively, as in "all of the following are true, EXCEPT...". For another, many of the questions are quite a bit pickier than my experience with the USMLE step 1 (three days ago).

The book also contains far too few photomicrographs, and those are all black and white, but this can be remedied easily with supplemental materials.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent as an overview for school and as a review USMLE 1., December 5, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Pathology (Paperback)

This book provides a good outline of pathology by organ systems. Useful as an overview of pathology for medical school classes, and tremendously helpful for Step 1 of the USMLE.