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 - Untrustworthy SourceA few years ago, I was drawn to this book for its quick and easy, Q&A style, while helping a more senior friend study for his General Surgery Boards. It quickly became apparently to both of us (including myself, a mid-level resident at the time, without a full fund of knowledge), that this book was so full of errors that it is practically unusable. Although in this day and age of spell-checkers, I am stymied by the number of grammatical and spelling errors, I can get past those. It is the glaring factual errors which make this book untrustworthy. Many of them are simple, easy to understand concepts which are not in contention; these are not controversial issues and therefore these errors are unforgiveable. For this to happen in a second edition, is seemingly unprofessional and inappropriate. Since I am acquainted with many of the faculty who wrote the chapters in this text, I spoke with them about it. All agreed that the questions I marked as errors were indeed wrong and had little to say about how they appeared in the book (ie, they generally insisted that that was not the answer they gave to the question). Its a mystery if the authors themselves claim not to have given the answers contained in the text. It would not be farfetched for me to say that every page of this text contains some sort of error - spelling, grammar, references or actual factual inconsistencies. Do not waste your money on this text. I'd rate it a "0" if I could. page 1 of 1
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