Worst book you've used

[mward04]

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What's the worst book you've ever used studying in med school?

My vote would have to be Essential Medical Phys by Johnson. That book siz-nucked! Maybe it's just cause my prof was terrible...

 

[DW]

even though i thankfully never bought it, Stryer for biochem. So ridiculously over detailed it boggles the mind why my school made it a recommended text 👎

 

[Mumpu]

First Aid for Step 1. Organization and flow of information only a coked-out gerbil with ADD could love.

 

[ericdamiansean]

Rypin's Pharmacology 🙁

 

[mward04]

First Aid for Step 1. Organization and flow of information only a coked-out gerbil with ADD could love.

how did you know my secret!

 

[sacrament]

I've never seen an embyro book that didn't suck ass.

 

[Winged Scapula]

even though i thankfully never bought it, Stryer for biochem. So ridiculously over detailed it boggles the mind why my school made it a recommended text 👎

Yes, almost as bad as Goodman and Gilman for Pharm. Who's Pharm? PharmDs? WAAAAYYY too complicated and dense. I'll just look at it in the library if I don't get a hernia pulling it off the shelf!

 

[carrigallen]

"Last's Anatomy."

This book had almost no diagrams, cheap paper, and stinky glue. No color. No pictures. The text consisted of: "The lateral medial eminence is distally anterolateral to the medial hypophysial tuberance, which is the caudotransverse insertion of the radionominal ligament. As one proceeds superiolaterally..."

 

[Mirror Form]

even though i thankfully never bought it, Stryer for biochem. So ridiculously over detailed it boggles the mind why my school made it a recommended text 👎

Stryer is a good book, it just isn't designed for medical students. I took an undergrad autotutorial biochem course and it was very helpful. I even remembered a lot of the stuff I learned from it when my med school biochem course started. Keep in mind that Stryer's competition, Lehninger, is just as detailed if not more so.

 

[Puzzlebox]

"Stryer is a good book, it just isn't designed for medical students. I took an undergrad autotutorial biochem course and it was very helpful. I even remembered a lot of the stuff I learned from it when my med school biochem course started. Keep in mind that Stryer's competition, Lehninger, is just as detailed if not more so."



....autotutorial biochemistry...sounds like you went to Cornell...when did you graduate?


I have to be honest and say that I seldom use the texts in med school so far except for reference so poor books aren't so much of an issue...the real issue for me sometimes is just having a poor Prof!!!
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[13538]

"Last's Anatomy."

This book had almost no diagrams, cheap paper, and stinky glue. No color. No pictures. The text consisted of: "The lateral medial eminence is distally anterolateral to the medial hypophysial tuberance, which is the caudotransverse insertion of the radionominal ligament. As one proceeds superiolaterally..."

I totally agree about the glue thing!!! Not exactly conducive to opening the book!

Last's was written for UK/Irish surgeons-in-training and is aimed at postgraduate anatomy exams (a very different beast compared to undergraduate antomy exams). In it's favour, it is very concisely written, given the level of detail and very well organised. It was the recommended anatomy text when I was studying anatomy and some people in my class swore by it...although I mostly swore at it and used big Moores instead 😉