Customer Reviews

Robbins Basic Pathology, Eighth Edition

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It made my brain hurt. Mission accomplished. :D. On a serious note, a very good book, details are impressive. Easy to read and understand.

Does a good job of covering the basics. The pictures are great and explanations clear.

Has a little more detail than you need in med school, but not so much that it's overwhelming like the thicker Robbins book. It's a good balance and pretty easy to read with lots of helpful pictures.

Its a well written text, but for the typical medical student it might be overkill for many topics. With that said, it does provide one with a good background on all topics pathology

This is the book to purchase while studying pathology during medical school. It explains pathological concepts,and related topics such as embryology and biochemistry) in a detailed manner. At the same time this book manages to be concise enough so that you can read while completing other course work during medical school. Having on-line access to this book on Student Consult is convenient so that you do not have to carry the book around with you all the time. I recommend this book over the larger version of this book for the average medical student.

Personally, I was hoping for a book that is brief but will cover all the important aspect of pathology. Somthing between a review book and a full textbook. However, this book is very long in some areas but miss out on many other parts. So it is incomprehensive. I still need to look up a lot of information, yet many sections are too long and too detailed that slow down the study process.

much easier and faster to read than big Robbins. probably leaves out a few details but it's a good tradeoff when you're taking several classes with no time to read it all. compatible with all the materials that go with big Robbins, like the review book and the atlas.

This book is good and has a lot of knowledge in each chapter. However, the information can sometimes be a little to limiting in one area and excessive in another. Sometimes it's a hard read due to its slight disorganization. Overall, it is good to have around when trying to get a little more in depth knowledge about pathological diseases and cases.

This textbook really represents the most widely used text for teaching pathology to medical students. It is an excellent source for a beginner to pathology with friendly text that is fairly easy to read and comprehensive enough to be used as a reference. However, the text's downfall lies in not being written for the appropriate audience. For medical students, time constraints make this a beast of a source to read thoroughly, and reading a chapter 2-3 times to memorize it, is out of the question. Other difficulties lie in that even though this book has been trimmed from the much thicker Robbin's pathology book, minor details that seem relatively mundane are abundant, and it makes it difficult to pick out important information. This is compounded by the fact that important information isn't necessarily emphasized for medical students, and there isn't a good review section at the end of each chapter. Taken together, this book sadly seems geared toward an undergraduate expereince rather than a medical school one. I cannot justify recommending this source to medical students; however, it would be an excellent text to others taking a course in pathology. To remedy problems for medical students, I would recommend using the pocket version of this book as a review source. I would even bouster that the pocket version is comprehensive enough to use as a primary source, and it will help limit details of relative non-importance.

This book is very helpful in the understanding of basic histology and pathological progression. There are several good illustrations and the section reviews offer a thorough summary to aid for recall. A good bedside read.