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Does anyone use the Merck Manual as well, either the online or the paper version?
I've been using it for half a year or so. It's not all that easy to use when your English isn't all that good and you have no real medical background other than extended first-aid trainings, as I do. Yet, I've been using it since May last year and I think it's a pretty good book to learn from. Haven't found a single word of which I don't know what it means yet.
Topics such as nutrition, oncology, anemias, cardiology, psychiatry and neurology, and many others: the Manual covers them all. Which makes it by far the best book I can think of, though I don't really have anything to compare it to.
It's a pretty good study book. Gives you a good basis to study medicine in all fields of internal medicine, and since it doesn't really focus on anything very deeply, it's easy to use and teaches you the basics of it all.
And the price: just $35.
Well, my opinion on the Manual is very positive.
* Cheap.
* Written by A LOT of experts.
* Made as a non-profit book.
* The dictionary-like thumb things for every chapter.
* Covers almost everything you can think of.
So, what's your opinion?
A link to the Manual online, all chapters, for free and without commercial things (banners): http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/sections.jsp
I've been using it for half a year or so. It's not all that easy to use when your English isn't all that good and you have no real medical background other than extended first-aid trainings, as I do. Yet, I've been using it since May last year and I think it's a pretty good book to learn from. Haven't found a single word of which I don't know what it means yet.
Topics such as nutrition, oncology, anemias, cardiology, psychiatry and neurology, and many others: the Manual covers them all. Which makes it by far the best book I can think of, though I don't really have anything to compare it to.
It's a pretty good study book. Gives you a good basis to study medicine in all fields of internal medicine, and since it doesn't really focus on anything very deeply, it's easy to use and teaches you the basics of it all.
And the price: just $35.
Well, my opinion on the Manual is very positive.
* Cheap.
* Written by A LOT of experts.
* Made as a non-profit book.
* The dictionary-like thumb things for every chapter.
* Covers almost everything you can think of.
So, what's your opinion?
A link to the Manual online, all chapters, for free and without commercial things (banners): http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/sections.jsp
