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Principles of Hand Surgery and Therapy, 1e

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I am an orthopedic surgery resident. I have used this book during our academic conferences for 2 years and have become extremely frustrated with it.

It is filled with errors--and not just negligible spelling or punctuation errors! Too often there is a typo (I presume) with the wrong bone/wrong tendon/wrong direction. Furthermore, the technical descriptions of operative procedures is absent or lacking.

While it is a decent book for review of general concepts if you know enough to recognize the errors, I do not feel that it is dependable enough or deep enough to use once I enter private practice.

This is the required reading for the hand lectures for our plastic surgery teaching conferences. This book has two very strong points: (1) the chapters are organized in a logical fashion and written in the same style making for an easy read(this book was written by a single author) and (2) all of the chapters have plenty of excellent figures to illustrate the concepts.

That said, this book is chock-full of errors including formatting errors, grammatical errors, spelling errors, and factual errors. The formatting, grammatical, and spelling errors make it rather difficult to understand and annoying to read. The factual errors are very misleading and sometimes difficult for someone early in their training to weed out.

All in all, this book has the potential to be a great hand text in its future editions, but I would not recommend the current edition.