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Squire's Fundamentals of Radiology: Sixth Edition

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Well, outside of surgical specialties & Neurology, most don't even look at scans, so maybe I should say, would recommend if you actually want to learn how to read scans. This book is excellent & I need to spend more time with it still. Have kept for residency (not in radiology)

A great book to get your foot in the door with radiology. The author writes in a simplistic manner making it quite easy to read passively. There are a number of questions posed throughout the book that stimulate critical thinking, and the images in the book are descent. It tends to read very quickly even though it looks rather thick in appearance. Overall, the book does a great job of giving a medical student the kind of radiology education that he should have formally had while in medical school. So by the time that you have read this book, you should feel more confident in your ability to approach a chest x-ray and diagnose a number of common aliments: pneumonia, pneumothorax, atelectasis, etc. Additionally, you should be much more familiar with what kinds of radiographic tests available and how you should use them, even if you may not understand all of the minor nuances of each test. However, let me state very clearly that this book will bring you no where near the level of complexity that a radiologist or a radiology resident should understand the subject matter. Its weakness lies in its simplicity. It does a great job of giving examples and explaining fundamentals, but there are far too few of them to make you proficient in reading an x-ray. The moral here is that you should not anticipate this book turning you into a radiologist, but it does a superb job of fulfilling its purpose: teaching the fundamentals.

Radiology was my first rotation of my third year and this book was fantastic at prepping a "green" clinical student. Many of the main ideas were later stated nearly verbatim by my preceptor. It's lacking a bit on the physics of the different methodologies but for a medical student, this is a great start! It's a quick and easy read with plenty of illustrations and I used it as a adjunct to his teaching on a daily basis.

This book is handy to my coworkers. just a review of what to look for with certain diagnoses radiologists tell their patients.

I's a really good book for those who don't think about being radiologist, an understanding introductory book and it seems that it was speacially done for medical students.
It arrived in just 1 week, and it is fast if you consider that I'm from Peru, the book arrived in good conditions, so I have no complains.
Definitively what i was looking for. A good purchase.

Review by a medical student interested in Radiology

This book is good if you want a starter to book for radiographic images that encompasses a variety of fields of film study. It was an easy read for each chapters, but way too basic, the author rambles as if you're a 6th grader. So, I only suggest this book if you want only pictures to get an idea of what radiographic films show for some common pathology. The book started with the OVER-SIMPLIFIED anatomy with comparison to the radiographic images. You will need a better book for a more in-depth review of Radiology. There is hardly anything on Neuroradiology, IR, flouroscopy, etc. It was only SLIGHTLY useful for my General Radiology rotation. Plus, most hospitals usually has this book in their library, may be an edition older though.

One think that bothered me about the illustrations were that the lesions were usually not labeled, they were just discussed or mentioned within the illustration's caption or the chapter explanation. The book is pricey for what it contains. It should be worth $40 or less!

Product arrived in great condition but took almost 2 weeks to ship.