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good concise CP book
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Mais quick clinical compendium
I also thought this book was pretty good. It is small and easy to carry around in your lab coat (may make it a bit bulky though). Its good for quick look ups and some additional reading.
Clinical Laboratory Pearls (Paperback)
~ Steven L Jones (Author)
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I liked this book as well, but it was published in 2000 so its getting a bit dated.
I agree - I was actually looking through it yesterday because I found it in a stack of books and the chapter on acute leukemia referred to L1, L2 and L3 blasts. But for a lot of stuff the info still applies so it is a good basic reference. I do agree though that the quick compendium is probably the best quick reference out there. Individual areas of pathology like blood bank have their own nice concise references but there are very few that cover most of CP.
The clinical compendium is only good for board review and if you want to be able to vomit up facts. Henry is the best concise book for CP. If you aren't going to read Konneman, the technical manual, a real chem book, foucar's book, the WHO heme book, and a real molecular text book, then you need to read Henry. It is the most concise CP book available.
Do yourself a favor and dont follow any of the above advice. Henry is a dense behemoth and you will not absorb much trying to read it cover to cover. And don't even think of reading Konneman cover to cover.
Henry is a reference textbook, albeit a "one size fits all" textbook. Use it as such. When you want more info on a chemistry topic (other books are better for other topics), you can look up the particular passage in Henry as go from there.
For blood bank, there are a lot of good, concise books to read (the AABB puts out a guide to transfusion medicine which is really good). Hemepath, there is a lot to choose from. The Kjeldsberg book is really good for that.
For micro, you are better off actually learning at the bench and going from there. A good micro lab will have a lot of teaching and self-study resources that you can use. If they train techs and you can sit in on that, you will learn a tremendous amount. Again, use Koneman as a reference textbook, not to read cover to cover, there is way too much dense, detailed info that you are not going to use day to day and it drowns out the important stuff you need to learn.
In the end, buy the quick compendium, read it, and use it as a springboard to explore in detail different areas of CP.
