We did not use Grey's, we used Moore's Clinically Oriented Anatomy. I don't think they've changed it, unless you've heard otherwise. (the only book i really used for anatomy was Netter) The 'Dead Body Book' is also good, but if you spend enough time in lab, you really don't need it. My roommate had one, and I glanced at it a few times, but since you're tested on your cadavers, you better study those, because they will NOT look like the book. Alot of us will be selling books the first week of school, so you may get some deals that way too. Don't buy a Grant's dissector. There's plenty of them laying around. My group had one in our tool drawer when we showed up for our first day of lab, and there were alot of groups that litterally found them laying around the lab. Besides, most of the profs give you a guide on what they want you to do in lab. I looked at Grant's all of one time all semester, and couldn't make heads or tails of it. Anatomy was one of highest grades all year, so whatever I did seemed to have worked for me. As for other classes, the 'required' book list and the 'what you really need' book lists are quite different. i pretty much bought all the required books, and hardly ever used most of them. I would say definitely get Robbin's Pathologic Basis of Disease (I would be surprised if many people are selling that one - students i mean). I would also recommend Lippincott's Review of Pharmacology (one of the profs literally follows that book word for word). Those are the only 2 books i brought home with me for the summer, if that tells you anything. There was a book many of my classmates used for Neuro, but I can't remember what it was called, because it was not one of the required books. The rest are OK, but it really depends on how you learn. Most of our teachers give out pretty good and detailed note packets that contain all the info you really need. the books really only suppliment what they say, and if you have time to read all the books AND go to class AND read the note packets, you have way more time on your hands than I did first year.
