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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 617.0076 EAN: 9780781756419 Edition: 2 ISBN: 0781756413 Label: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Manufacturer: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 620 Publication Date: August 01, 2005 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Studio: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Related Items:
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 Rating: - Moving to the USA from EuropeIts rather important to understand how another health system thinks about disease. This book written by residents give an excellent initial insight into the US surgical resident's thinking. I was trained in Ireland and there are some interesting differences that this book highlights. Rating: - A terrific review for the ABSITEI read this book and my in-training exam score went up by over sixty points. It's not exactly a quick read at over 500 pages, but it's very readable and it contains all the information covered in the ABSITE exam. I highly recommend it as a review book for surgery residents looking to improve their scores. Rating: - Intense absite reviewThis book is the first of its kind to prepare you in total for the Absite examination. This book incorporates basic science with the clinical science in order to allow you to review for the tests in a short text version without having to decipher through large textbooks. It has references to O'leary, the basic science book used during my residency, as well as to other major textbooks. This book seems to cut out the redundency of larger books and includes small facts that they love to ask on the ... Read More 
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