Best way to blow off $800 in textbooks?

[gbwillner]

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I've got $800 to spend... I'm thinking Rosai... I can also buy on Amazon and get reimbursed. What would you do if you were a PGY1????

My rotations ( in order)
Autopsy
Cyto
Molecular
Surgpath
Heme
Peds

 

[DrBloodmoney]

I've got $800 to spend... I'm thinking Rosai... I can also buy on Amazon and get reimbursed. What would you do if you were a PGY1????

My rotations ( in order)
Autopsy
Cyto
Molecular
Surgpath
Heme
Peds

I tell all of our new residents to NOT buy a major surg path text. Instead, pick up as many of the foundations in diagnostic pathology series as you can. They are highly readable and have great pictures (especially the later ones when they switched to all digital images - not scanned ones). Here's the neuropathology one for example. I love these books.

Your resident library should have one (or all) of the big three surg path texts. By the time you get out of residency whatever edition you bought will be replaced by the new edition anyway.

 

[Gut Shot]

The new WHO heme book should be coming out soon. Everyone used the Hell out of the last one, and the new one should be no different. The WHO blue books are pretty cheap, to boot.

Edit: Don't bother with an autopsy book or peds book. If you end up doing forensics or a pediatric pathology fellowship there will be plenty of time for that.

The Foundations books are great, good advice there. For a core I'd personally recommend Bethesda, Baby DeMay and Cytopathology Review Guide for cyto, Essentials of Anatomic Pathology for all things surgical, and the molecular chapters in Henry's.

 

[gbwillner]

Thanks for the advice!!

 

[whispers]

Short list

Who heme
Baby demay
Lester's
Diagnosis of Endometrial Biopsies and Curettings: A Practical Approach
Weiss Soft tissue
Blaustein's Pathology of the Female Genital Tract (5th Edition)
Askin and Katzenstein's Nonneoplastic Lung
Rapini's for Derm

 

[yaah]

I think whoever suggested those "Foundations in diagnostic pathology" books had a good idea. Those are good solid books, fairly comprehensive but focused.

If I had $800 as a first year I'm not sure what I would buy. It's true that most residents rooms and signout rooms will have Rosai and Sternberg and possibly other standard texts, but it's nice to have your own. Expensive though. Baby Demay is a good suggestion, as is the WHO Heme when they release the new one. I wouldn't spend money on the Weiss, Katzenstein, or Blaustein books as a first year unless you know you have a major interest - you will have time to look at those books over the years and evaluate for yourself if you want them or not. Rapini is a good derm book if you want one.

Buying the Lester grossing book is definitely a good idea though.

 

[gbwillner]

I think whoever suggested those "Foundations in diagnostic pathology" books had a good idea. Those are good solid books, fairly comprehensive but focused.

If I had $800 as a first year I'm not sure what I would buy. It's true that most residents rooms and signout rooms will have Rosai and Sternberg and possibly other standard texts, but it's nice to have your own. Expensive though. Baby Demay is a good suggestion, as is the WHO Heme when they release the new one. I wouldn't spend money on the Weiss, Katzenstein, or Blaustein books as a first year unless you know you have a major interest - you will have time to look at those books over the years and evaluate for yourself if you want them or not. Rapini is a good derm book if you want one.

Buying the Lester grossing book is definitely a good idea though.

Only problem with the diagnostic series is that you need pretty much all of them... and I can only afford 4...

 

[KeratinPearls]

How about placental pathology (since I'm on placentas this month)? What is the book on placentas?

Thanks!

 

[DrBloodmoney]

How about placental pathology (since I'm on placentas this month)? What is the book on placentas?

Thanks!

I personally use the AFIP's non-neoplastic book on placentas. But if I had to buy another one, it would be this one

And you do an entire month of placenta?

 

[DarksideAllstar]

I tell all of our new residents to NOT buy a major surg path text. Instead, pick up as many of the foundations in diagnostic pathology series as you can. They are highly readable and have great pictures (especially the later ones when they switched to all digital images - not scanned ones). Here's the neuropathology one for example. I love these books.

Your resident library should have one (or all) of the big three surg path texts. By the time you get out of residency whatever edition you bought will be replaced by the new edition anyway.

Thanks for the advice re: the Foundations Series. I wish that I had seen these a little sooner.

 

[Sean2tall]

Would you think maybe GI and GYN from the Foundations series for starters?

It appears from Amazon that a new GYN should be out in August and GI is from 2005.

I was thinking also the WHO Heme when it comes out, Histology for Pathologists now.

 

[deschutes]

I have Foundations Heme and like it lots (WHO heme doesn't talk about the non-neoplastic conditions, and I was one of those irked by the new Kjeldsberg). I don't have a neuropath book, so thanks for that tip (was hesitant to buy the whole series without stronger recommendation). Probably will get the GI book next.

Also second Rapini, Lester (2001 ed) and baby Demay. I have Rosai, which has better pictures than Sternberg (more useful for boards study, not so much day-to-day practice).

Not a fan of Blaustein's. I use Crum to for both gyn and placental path.
Never bought Bethesda, relying on the web image atlas at http://nih.techriver.net/ instead.
Did not use Histology for Pathologists much.

 

[CameronFrye]

I really like the Biopsy Interpretation Series of books. Some of them have new editions due to come out, so try not to buy a soon to be outdated edition.

I also spend a good bit of money on the WHO books.

 

[docbiohazard]

Histology for Pathologists now.

Was given this book as a PGY1 and have to say, I'm finding it pretty useful for prepping for daily surg path conference and what not. Dense, lots of developmental information, lots of nice pictures, but chock full of high yield info.

DBH

 

[deschutes]

I tore the wrapper off my Foundations GI book not two days ago, and I want to give it mad props 👍👍👍 It's proving to be everything I wanted in a GI biopsy previewing companion.

 

[deschutes]

Back-to-back post, but just in case - to the OP, can you carry over your funds to the next year? I bought a few books in first year, then basically used the health sciences library and accumulated funds during 2nd and some of 3rd year until I was sure I knew what books I liked.

 

[gbwillner]

OK... thanks everyone for their input. Here's what I did with the $$$ so far. Our program refunds us with a valid receipt, or you can buy it at the bookstore and get cheated.

Baby DeMay (new)- $168 on eBay
Practice of Surgical Pathology (beginner's guide) by Molavi (new)- $73.04 Amazon
Hematopathology (Foundations series) by Hsi (new)- $112 on Borders.com (with coupon)
Rosai and Ackerman's Surgical Path (used- apprx. one year old)- ~$260 (I traded a new Baby DeMay and a new Molvai book for it)
I also have the old Robbins from med school and procured a 2nd ed. Histology for Pathologists for free.


That still leaves me with about $180. Any other suggestions?

 

[listeriaismfb]

You'll should get a Lester's. ~$100. I'm not sure what yo can get for $80.

AJCC Cancer Staging Manual for surgicals, about $60, buy the big one it has better pictures.

Sinard's Outlines in Pathology is out of print, but you can get the revised edition for free (it's shareware at his site). I found this book to be very helpful during my residency, an updated free version sounds good any day.

Go to your medical library and check out the old WHO Heme book, and the WHO neuropath book. Try before you buy, because the format is not going to change much with the new ed of the hemepath book...

 

[mrp]

I think this has probably been covered, but what are people's favorite lymph node books? The new edition of Ioachim's is out in a few weeks, so I was thinking of picking this up. Is there anything better?

 

[gbwillner]

You'll should get a Lester's. ~$100. I'm not sure what yo can get for $80.

AJCC Cancer Staging Manual for surgicals, about $60, buy the big one it has better pictures.

Sinard's Outlines in Pathology is out of print, but you can get the revised edition for free (it's shareware at his site). I found this book to be very helpful during my residency, an updated free version sounds good any day.

Go to your medical library and check out the old WHO Heme book, and the WHO neuropath book. Try before you buy, because the format is not going to change much with the new ed of the hemepath book...

Thanks for the advice... I forgot to add that my program was nice enough to buy us all both the Lester book as well as the new Wash manual.
I thought about the new WHO hemepath, but they are seriously jacking up the price to over $120.

 

[listeriaismfb]

Thanks for the advice... I forgot to add that my program was nice enough to buy us all both the Lester book as well as the new Wash manual.

I thought about the new WHO hemepath, but they are seriously jacking up the price to over $120.

WHO books are worth every penny. Truly. If you can only afford a couple, heme and neuropath are must haves.

 

[deschutes]

A couple of the 2nd years told me they really liked this book:

Weedman's The Practice of Surgical Pathology: A Beginner's Guide to the Diagnostic Process

You can preview some of the pages on Amazon.