Essentials of General Surgery

by Peter F. Lawrence

For nearly 25 years, medical students and faculty alike have chosen Essentials of General Surgery and its companion textbook, Essentials of Surgical Specialties, for authoritative coverage of surgical information that every physician in training should know. The Fifth Edition incorporates current research from the field; new sample questions, answers, and rationales; and new tables and algorithms. A new art program presents concepts and images including an Appendix with 50 burn images in full color for optimal learning and retention.

Genres: Medicine, Medical, Nonfiction, Reference

624 pages, ebook

First published June 1, 1988

Reviews

[Sara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Finally!!!

I love surgery so obviously the least rating I could give to a book in this field is 3.

I started this book when I didn't need to read anything about surgery in med-school and I was so slow in reading it then. but now I'm near my surgery exam and finally finished it. Well not completely, I skipped some parts I didn't feel I like them.

It's not a "principle of" surgery like Schwartz and nothing near it, it is "essentials of " general surgery.

It has much less diagrams than Schwartz, less pictures, less procedures and managements.

But it is written in a very simple way and is good for theoretically getting whole idea of subjects.

The e-book I had was for 2019 and had both book 1 and 2 combined.

As a quick recap, It's not very complete but not very complicated neither.

[Sarvenaz · Rating 3 out of 5]

the first textbook i started on my general surgery rotation and the first i finished!
in my opinion it's just an overview and "essentials" compared to Sabiston (which took me well beyond my exam to finish)

6th edition

[Baraa Qudah · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read some of this book 2 years ago , and this year on the surgery rotation I read other chapters , so i read most of the chapters .

This book explains topics very well , at the preface they said that the aim of this book to help medical students even who are not interested in surgery ( like me ) to get well understanding of the diseases and surgical knowledge that is of value to any physician , and that was the case here .

Chapters take much time to read , but no regret , it makes you understand stuffs better ,

Use this book early , decide which chapters you are interested to know , and use your lecture notes for the university rotation.

[Guille · Rating 5 out of 5]

Muy buen libro biobliografico sobre la vida de Lister. Muy recomendado para los amantes de la historia de la medicina