Ebook Info
- Published: 2014
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- Format: PDF
- File Size: 26.63 MB
- Authors: Green, Jacqueline M.
Description
This is an excellent workbook for students or healthcare professionals who are just beginning to interpret 12-lead EKGs. The book covers what is expected, but the manner in which it presents the material brings much clarity to the topic.
Reviews
I am an IMG studying for my USMLEs after years of working as a communicable disease epidemiologist. Not living anywhere near a medical book store, I bought this book (English translation of the original book in German), sight unseen, based on descriptions of those who bought the book. Quickly going to the CNS infections section, I was horrified to find numerous inaccuracies, misleading half-truths, and fantasy concerning the epidemiology and diagnosis of the various infectious agents. For example, for this book, malaria is diagnosed by blood culture. The feeble attempt to describe the biological cycle _Taenia solium_ in the text is so utterly wrong, it’s like the words “adult worm”, “cysticerci”, “pig”, “humans”, “definitive host”, and “intermediary host” were thrown in a hat, shaken, and spilled out on a page without any thought of their definition or which word went where, the result being total nonsense! Although the illustration of _T. solium_ cycle is basically correct, I don’t understand why someone had to mess it up by putting the word “hydatid” to describe the larva form of _T. solium_. The term “hydatid” is strictly used for the larva form of _Echinococcus_ species. I stopped reading this section a third of the way through in order to make better use of my time. I suggest that anyone using this book should stick to the neurology and not even read anything concerning microbiology. I suggest buying a more reliable source for microbiology (I suggest Levinson – Review of Microbiology and Immunology – 10th edition). Whether the erroneous information is just be a bad translation or not is anybody’s guess. Although the errors may not be important to most neurologists, the fact that this is supposed to be a medical book means that the author is obliged to provide accurate scientific information, not make it up as he goes.
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