The thing that hooked me to this book was that next to the pictures there are 1-6 lines of description which is a super high-yield summary of what you need to know about the pathology(etiology, pathogenesis, morphology, correlations, complications). On the clinically common subjects there are usually more than 3 pictures, so you can get accustomed to seeing it from every angle possible. I am a visual learner and when I first laid eyes on this book, I HAD to have it. If a medical student can catch these errors, it would stand to reason that he would have seen them too. I wish the author would have corrected them instead of rushing this book to press. Pathology is central to the study of medicine and forms the bridge between the basic sciences and. The visual presentation of the subject matter, divided into one-page units, makes for easy learning and re-call. If your medical school used Robbin and Cotran’s Pathologic Basis of Disease for its pathology/pathophysiology courses, it will help in solidifying visual concepts, but don’t give too much credence with its descriptions. Generations of medical students have been helped to pass their exams by the 'Illustrated' books. However is riddled with errors in a lot of image descriptions that render it unusable if you are going to only rely on this book as a reference. Plus, it follows the chapter outline of Robbins and Cotran’s Pathologic Basis of Disease pretty faithfully. This book has beautiful full color illustrations regarding the gross anatomy and histology of each organ and their associated changes with various disease processes.
