surgical recall audio

[dozer89]

Are you supposed to get the surgical recall audios for free when you buy the book? I went to the website and typed in the access code on the inside of the front cover but I am having trouble figuring out how to get the SR mp3's.

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[treasurefull2]

Are you supposed to get the surgical recall audios for free when you buy the book? I went to the website and typed in the access code on the inside of the front cover but I am having trouble figuring out how to get the SR mp3's.

They are there. I remember it took forever to figure out where they were on the website, and I can't recall exactly where they were, but they are there. Don't get too excited though, I didn't think they were great...

Good luck...

 

[Thievery Corp.]

I just downloaded them all yesterday, they talk abit slow but its nice to have places I cannot read, i.e. the gym, in the car etc.
When you are at the home page click the link that says audio book library and the first book listed should be surgical recall audio and if you are logged in, you should be able to click on the table of contents link in blue. Then you should see a zip files and further down the list you will have the mp3 files. I would recommend downloading the zip files just because it took less time, plus if you try to click on the mp3s it streams them rather than prep for download.

 

[Blade28]

There are audio files for Recall?

Wow.

 

[Thievery Corp.]

Anyone else diggin these?
I kinda like them.

 

[Law2Doc]

🙂 looks like I am the only one seeding right now.

dude -- this is copyrighted material. SDN is not to be used to facilitate violation of copyright laws.

 

[Scaredshizzles]

dude -- this is copyrighted material. SDN is not to be used to facilitate violation of copyright laws.

But why not? How much money do you think LWW makes off of retreading new editions of the same books year after year after year. It's a dirty game. Why not cheat the cheats?

 

[Law2Doc]

But why not? How much money do you think LWW makes off of retreading new editions of the same books year after year after year. It's a dirty game. Why not cheat the cheats?

Because it's against the law. You can't justify a crime because you are stealing from someone who makes money -- two wrongs don't make a right. If you have issues with LWW's practices, your remedy is to address them through the legal process. Not steal. And for sure not on SDN, where it is against TOS to do this.

 

[Stark]

In the case of Surgical Recall Audio, Lippincott has really made an effort to make the audio as inexpensive as possible.

When they initially launched the product, LWW specifically priced the MP3 Audio cheap (not quite free) to discourage piracy.

The book cost was around $40.00 and the Book Plus Audio only $2.00 more at around $42.00. Two bucks for an audiobook is unheard of, really.

Today you can buy the book and audio together, what they call "Surgicall Recall Print & Audio" here for as low as $13.00 - a steal, in my opinion. The audio can be found by itself for a discount as well.

I highly recommend Surgical Recall (Both the text version and the audio version). Basically, if you know everything in Surgical Recall from front to back - you will be prepared for the pimp questions, know what to do and when to do it, be able to help patients, and know enough to do well on your NBMEs.

To my understanding, in general, a publisher's profit margin on most books is about 5%. That comes to around $2.00 profit on a $40.00 book such as Surgical Recall.

Wishing you all the best,

Stark

P.S. I agree with Law2Doc on the subject of Piracy. It is just illegal and unethical - a behavior that is below our profession.

 

[benz240]

Whatever you paid for the audio, it blows. Way too slow, hard to stay focused on the droning...it sounds like a foreign language tutorial or something. I would rather listen to something more conversational like Goljan.

 

[Stark]

benz240,

I agree that the audio too slow. Luckily, it is in MP3 format so you can speed it up. For the time being, I would suggest WavePad (30 day free trial) to speed up the audio. However, this does change the pitch and make the voices sound like chipmunks.

I always like my audio fast, and the questions/answers on recall can be terribly slow. I am looking into some other programs now to see if I can find a better one that will speed them up without changing the quality and/or pitch.

Stark

 

[anon-y-mouse]

Surgical Recall audio stinks. I think they hired professional voice actors to do it, so they eff up some of the medical terms and abbreviations. It takes FOREVER and a half to get through, hours and hours and hours. Other audios are a better use of your time. Or not listening to this thing in the first place. Easy way to speed up, if you have an ipod -- convert the file to AAC format, then change the file extensions to .m4b from .m4a, so it becomes an audio book. Then, click 'play faster' in your ipod/iphone audiobook settings.