Baily and Love's Short Practice of Surgery is one of the world's preeminent medical textbooks. The new 24th edition introduces several innovations while retaining those essential features that are a hallmark of the "Bailey and Love" style. The text presents a comprehensive coverage of general surgery, with new key information boxes in addition to core material. Extensive 4-color illustrations reinforce clinical messages, and the book's famous aphorisms and biographies of prominent pioneers of surgery are entirely updated for this new edition. Features include: *An orthopedic section entirely updated with new 4-color halftones and line drawings * Learning objectives listed at the beginning of every chapter * All historical footnotes are entirely updated, plus there is additional new material of interest * More consistent use of pedagogic features plus additional information boxes and chapter summaries * Editors and contributing authors of international repute who are also recognized for their skills in teaching and communication * Chapters extent adjusted to reflect relative balance between surgical specialties
A great book for the beginner in surgery. Though called A short practice of surgery, the book is thousands of pages thick. Think the authors are still writing "The long practice of surgery"
Read this during med school during my surgery rotation but its pretty long and if you want to be more quick for your exams then I suggest online or class resources (medbullets, uworld, uptodate, lectures, shorter versions of surgery textbooks).
If you’re sitting for your boards/steps— I suggest stick to uworld, pathoma, osmosis/kaplan videos, usmleRx, and the trusty First Aid for the respective steps!
I read most of GI surgeries from this thoroughly for my OR rotations. I found them much easier to understand and digest. I think this is a great resource at a junior level but only for topics you find tough.
Bailey & Love is the world famous textbook of surgery. Its complete coverage includes the scientific basis of surgical practice, investigation, diagnosis, & pre-operative care. Its reputation for unambiguous advice makes it the first point of reference for students & practising surgeons worldwide.
Personally speaking people might think of me as nerd though I m not at all believe me. This book is really addictive once you start it (if you have the courage) you wont be able to use anyother. In other words no other book will satisfy you. I admit when we see it, it appears to be a big book and really heavy as for the people who usually set their mind by weighing a book that is just apparent. It is precise and well described one. If you intend to learn surgery in real means I would definitely recommend it to you.
despite being over 1500 pages, this book is literally sort of review book. Principles of Surgery and trauma handling (ATLS , )are described quite in length . while in the systemic portion most of the chapters are just review. it may seem nerdy but its writing style and narrating stories of surgery in an interesting way make this book a page-turner. The summary boxes after every topic can help wrap up the whole discussion as well as serve as a quick review on exam night .
A very easy book to read, all the informations are broken down to sections making it both easy and less scary to read :D I still have some sections left, but I have really benefited from the sections I have read and I will keep reading it for the next two years :)