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Essentials of General Surgery and Surgical Specialties
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Now combining general surgery and the specialties in one volume, this Sixth Edition of Essentials of General Surgery and Surgical Specialties focuses on the information all medical students need to know to pass the NBME surgery shelf or other surgery rotation examinations. This new edition of Lawrence’s popular text offers concise, high-yield content and a smaller format ideal for study on the go. Updated to reflect the latest advances in the field, it provides the authoritative, up-to-date content today’s busy medical students need for exam success.
Now combining general surgery and the specialties in one volume, this Sixth Edition of Essentials of General Surgery and Surgical Specialties focuses on the information all medical students need to know to pass the NBME surgery shelf or other surgery rotation examinations. This new edition of Lawrence’s popular text offers concise, high-yield content and a smaller format ideal for study on the go. Updated to reflect the latest advances in the field, it provides the authoritative, up-to-date content today’s busy medical students need for exam success.
860 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1988
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October 9, 2020
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.
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.
October 28, 2025
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
in my opinion it's just an overview and "essentials" compared to Sabiston (which took me well beyond my exam to finish)
6th edition
February 9, 2017
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.
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.
April 24, 2021
Muy buen libro biobliografico sobre la vida de Lister. Muy recomendado para los amantes de la historia de la medicina
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