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Pathophysiology of Disease: An Introduction to Clinical Medicine
This concise review of pathophysiology, which emphasizes the more common disease states and processes, helps students understand how to treat the disease.
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First published January 1, 1995
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March 21, 2014
This review got to be rather longer than usual, but I guess I don't have a hard time justifying that on account of the nature of the book.
To get this over with from the beginning: If you have never read a medical textbook before, don't bother with this one. You'll learn nothing and you'll never finish it. Unless you speak more or less fluent medical textbook you'll have to either look up a lot of new words, or you'll read a lot of words you'll not understand. The fact that the book is somewhat inaccessible was the most important factor pulling me towards 4 stars. I decided to let it have 5 stars anyway in the end - given how many hours I was willing to spend on this stuff I really couldn't justify giving it any other rating, although there are also a few other small problems which I might have punished in other contexts.
If you know enough to benefit from reading this book it's a great book, even though I'd prefer if future doctors - which would presumably make up most of the potential readers who 'know enough to benefit from reading it' - read a newer version of it. But in order to read it and get something out of it, you need some basic knowledge about stuff like microbiology, histology, immunology, endocrinology, oncology, (/bio-)chemistry, genetics, pharmacology, etc. And I don't mean basic knowledge like what you'd get from a couple of wikipedia articles - having read textbooks and/or watched medical lectures on some of these topics is a must.
On top of relevant background knowledge you need to be willing to commit at the very least something like 50 hours of spare time to reading this thing. I spent significantly more time than that, and most people probably need to do that as well if they want to actually understand most of this stuff - you certainly do if you want some of it to actually stick.
There probably exist quite a few similar medical textbooks which are more up to date and which may provide slightly better coverage. But I'm not going to read those books. I read this one. And I'm glad I did. Don't interpret the 5 stars to mean that this is the best book on this topic - I have no way of knowing whether or not it is, though I assume it isn't. But it is a highly informative and well-written book which covers a lot of ground and from which I learned a lot.
To get this over with from the beginning: If you have never read a medical textbook before, don't bother with this one. You'll learn nothing and you'll never finish it. Unless you speak more or less fluent medical textbook you'll have to either look up a lot of new words, or you'll read a lot of words you'll not understand. The fact that the book is somewhat inaccessible was the most important factor pulling me towards 4 stars. I decided to let it have 5 stars anyway in the end - given how many hours I was willing to spend on this stuff I really couldn't justify giving it any other rating, although there are also a few other small problems which I might have punished in other contexts.
If you know enough to benefit from reading this book it's a great book, even though I'd prefer if future doctors - which would presumably make up most of the potential readers who 'know enough to benefit from reading it' - read a newer version of it. But in order to read it and get something out of it, you need some basic knowledge about stuff like microbiology, histology, immunology, endocrinology, oncology, (/bio-)chemistry, genetics, pharmacology, etc. And I don't mean basic knowledge like what you'd get from a couple of wikipedia articles - having read textbooks and/or watched medical lectures on some of these topics is a must.
On top of relevant background knowledge you need to be willing to commit at the very least something like 50 hours of spare time to reading this thing. I spent significantly more time than that, and most people probably need to do that as well if they want to actually understand most of this stuff - you certainly do if you want some of it to actually stick.
There probably exist quite a few similar medical textbooks which are more up to date and which may provide slightly better coverage. But I'm not going to read those books. I read this one. And I'm glad I did. Don't interpret the 5 stars to mean that this is the best book on this topic - I have no way of knowing whether or not it is, though I assume it isn't. But it is a highly informative and well-written book which covers a lot of ground and from which I learned a lot.
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February 10, 2013I read few chapters in the previous year , including pulmonary, cardiology and GIT& hepatology , it's simple & contains most of symptoms and helped me a lot , I'll read the rest of the book in my next internal round in sha' Allah :)
February 19, 2015
It is interesting and very important
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