Best pathology books according to redditors
We found 124 Reddit comments discussing the best pathology books. We ranked the 67 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 124 Reddit comments discussing the best pathology books. We ranked the 67 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
> I learned that the original "patient zero" (the origin of the term!) was exonerated of the label when we found out that HIV had been active in the US since at least the 1960's, and it's estimated that the disease jumped from chimps to humans as early as the 1910's.
You should read The Origins of AIDS, by Dr. Jacques Pepin. It is generally believed that there may have been instances of HIV/AIDS in the US in the mid 1960's, but the vast majority of (and only traceable) infections are likely the result of one individual who got HIV in Haiti and brought it to the US around 1969. There is a case from Norway from 1966, and some well documented cases in the Congo as early as 1959. Genetic studies seem to indicate that the "ancestor" of HIV could date as far back as 1910 though, as you said.
The Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy 2019: 50 Years: 1969-2019 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1944272097/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_VC9xDbX23W3FH
Due to aggressive immunization campaigns, children began to receive the diptheria shot in Austria. Within a year, a new mental disorder unknown to even the most knowledgeable child psychologists in the country began to appear.
The book is second in a proposed thematic trilogy of infection and disease that started with The Moth in the Iron Lung.
There is an active petition to remove the book from Amazon.
I'm amazed that you nominated him for "most evil person" on the basis of this one quote. Wikipedia's bio on him describes a man who "was captivated by 'the many mysteries of the brain'" and tried to further our understand of how it works for the benefit of everyone. Some excerpts:
> During the Spanish Civil War he joined the Republican side and served as a medical corpsman on the Republican side while he was a medical student.
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Some consider one of Delgado's most promising finds is that of an area called the septum within the limbic region. This area, when stimulated by Delgado, produced feelings of strong euphoria. These euphoric feelings were sometimes strong enough to overcome physical pain and depression.
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Other than the stimoceiver, Delgado also created a "chemitrode" which was an implantable device that released controlled amounts of a drug into specific brain areas. Delgado also invented an early version of what is now a cardiac pacemaker.
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Delgado hypothesized that the [stimoceiver] method used on Paddy [the chimpanzee] could be used on others to stop panic attacks, seizures, and other disorders controlled by certain signals within the brain.
I don't think that he meant by "political control" any kind of authoritarian mind control of the populace, like something out of dystopian SF. People in this thread are bringing up CIA programs like MKULTRA, but I see no mention that Delgado agreed with or was involved in those programs. It sounds more like a proposal for a more humane alternative to prisons and asylums: instead of locking someone up for being a kleptomaniac or sociopath or drug addict, fix their brains instead and let them free.
I haven't read his book Physical Control of the Mind: Toward a Psychocivilised Society (although it's now on my reading list), but here's a blurb:
> In this Delgado has discussed how we have managed to tame and civilize our surrounding nature. Now it was time to civilize our inner being. ... The tone of the book was challenging and the philosophical speculations went beyond the data. However, the intent was benevolent to encourage less cruel, happier, better man.
And from an Amazon review:
> Dr. Delgado was one of the pioneers of deep brain stimulation research, a technology that is used today to reduce suffering in cases of chronic pain, epilepsy and Parkinson's disease. It never was and is not today capable of turning people into the mind-controlled automatons found in sci-fi thrillers such as the Manchurian Candidate or the X-files. The book offers a lucid and concise description of Dr. Delgado's work up to 1969 and a provocative look at possible applications of this technology (from a 1960's perspective). A recommended read for any Neuroscience or Neural Engineering student.
I hope the knee-jerk replies here celebrating his death and hoping he suffers in Hell, as well as everyone who upvoted this to third-highest in the "most evil" thread, are just assuming "mind control = evil" and don't actually know who he was.
We need more people like José Delgado.
Edit: Physical Control of the Mind is available online. I highly recommend Chapter 21, "Ethical Considerations," as well as the rest if you're likewise fascinated by his work.
> In the early 1950s, a patient in a state mental hospital approached Dr. Hannibal Hamlin and me requesting help. She was an attractive 24-year-old woman of average intelligence and education who had a long record of arrests for disorderly conduct, She had been repeatedly involved in bar brawls in which she incited men to fight over her and had spent most of the preceding few years either in jail or in mental institutions. The patient expressed a strong desire as well as an inability to alter her conduct, and because psychiatric treatment had failed, she and her mother urgently requested that some kind of brain surgery be performed in order to control her disreputable, impulsive behavior.
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Medical knowledge and experience at that time could not ascertain whether ESB or the application of cerebral lesions could help to solve this patient's problem, and surgical intervention was therefore rejected. When this decision was explained, both the patient and her mother reacted with similar anxious comments, asking, "What is the future? Only jail or the hospital? Is there no hope?" ... People are changing their character by self-medication through hallucinogenic drugs, but do they have the right to demand that doctors administer treatment that will radically alter their behavior? What are the limits of individual rights and doctors' obligations?
Very institution dependent, so it’s hard to give general advice. Some places you carry a pager and field clinical questions. Other places it’s pretty much self-taught and you show up for didactics once a day. Just show up and be interested, and you’ll be fine. If you’re looking for something to read, start with this book for an overview of clinical pathology.
Also, love the username.
Robbin's Review of Pathology or WebPath are good for questions.
Step-up to Medicine, it's a review book on Internal Medicine (Amazon). It's one book in the "Step-up series", but its the most well-known and respected.
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I personally did not use the Step-up books because I felt Q-banks were a better use of time. Up to you though...
read Molavi. This book will introduce you to like 90+% of what you will possibly see in a month. All the clerkships I had in med school, the staff gave me a portion of the resident's slides to look at on my own, so it was not passive. It is basically up to how they have their course set up.
It is also useful to just look at a full autopsy case to try to understand what normal may look like.
I'm not sure if this will be helpful for you, but I really liked this book when I was completely lost. I have a feeling you may be past this point in trying to pick a specialty, but this may be a good place to get a better understanding of the field. If you don't have access to this book and want it, PM me and I'll send you a copy. Also check out this post with comprehensive spreadsheet that another student put together.. it is pretty amazing
 
One things I often tell underclassmen is that it is better to shoot for the "harder" specialty because you can switch over to the easier one if you change your mind. However, going the other way around is often impossible. So a lot of people start residency in general surgery and change their minds about it and switch to anesthesiology. This is very common and anesthesiology is a very welcoming field to people who've changed their minds after starting residency. I would say if you're really torn and on the fence about general surgery vs anesthesiology know that you could always go for anesthesia later. You probably will not be able to choose where you go location wise, but you won't be locked of out the specialty if you decide to go with gen surg first.
 
I actually matched into anesthesiology (current MS4). Obviously take everything I have to say with a grain of salt... but I think anesthesiology is a great specialty. I'm surprised that you've heard people complaining that their job could be done by midlevels. At my program (and on my interviews) I've honestly never met an anesthesiologist who didn't love their job. Perhaps the rotation site you're at just doesn't have the complexity of cases that are seen at other places. I think the biggest thing about anesthesiology is that you have to be ok with many cases being a standard routine. Everyone agrees that you can teach a monkey to intubate and turn on some gas, but being a physician really matters in those cases where things aren't routine. Being prepared for those critical/scary situations is what the training is really about. Also, the anesthesiologists I work with are always trying to perfect what they are doing in their usual routine. Often they are trying to tweak things so patients are as comfortable as possible when they wake up. Anyways, I will admit that anesthesiology isn't for everyone, but I wouldn't rule out the specialty because a few people you've met are unhappy. Anecdotally, I find that the field has really high job satisfaction compared to other specialties (among residents and attendings).
 
Also not sure if this is going to be a big deciding factor for you, but I know many well regarded MD anesthesiology residency programs are DO friendly. One program I interviewed at that I remember most clearly being very DO friendly is case western. In terms of competitiveness, I would say anesthesiology is relatively easy. You do not need to be top of your class to match into this field. Refer to the spreadsheet above for numbers on competitiveness. My personal experience is that I got interviews from many of the top programs without being very competitive (bottom half of my class for sure and nothing especially impressive on my application to compensate for it).
 
Best of luck to you!
Definitely worth looking into mast cell and histamine issues if Zyrtec helps you. Have a read of this https://www.amazon.com/Never-Bet-Against-Occam-Activation/dp/0997319615 and check out his YT video if you want to learn about MC disorders.
Here's the one I was talking about:
http://www.amazon.com/Comprehensive-Certification-Recertification-Examinations-Assistants/dp/1605477265/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1380770283&sr=8-2&keywords=pance+review
Here's the Davis, which has better reviews:
http://www.amazon.com/Daviss-PA-Exam-Review-Focused/dp/0803629516/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1380770187&sr=8-1&keywords=pance+review
Here's my personal favorite:
http://www.amazon.com/Step-Up-Medicine-Series-Steven-Agabegi/dp/1609133609/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1380770247&sr=8-1&keywords=step+up+to+medicine
Have you tried the Robbin's review? It has been very helpful for me.
https://www.amazon.com/Robbins-Cotran-Review-Pathology-4e/dp/1455751553
Starting medical school in September and this is one of the books I need to buy. I'm currently working a minimum wage job in London- all of my wage goes on rent and food. Just this small thing would help a lot. :)
I used Dr. Satar (pathoma) to supplement path and physiology. His program is amazing!!!
My other half is in med school so I stole his "First aid" book. That thing is super helpful: First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 2018, 28th Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/1260116123/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_np.ZDbN2E99SM
Also used sketchy pharm and osmosis a ton. (A lot of the osmosis videos can be found on YouTube) There is also another guy on youtube I used: Dr. Armondo Hausdungan.
For all my primary care courses I supplemented with the Fitzgerald, APEA, and Leik books doing all the sections in each book for whatever was going on in class.
Hi there,
Some suggestions for ya!
The Quest for Consciousness by Christof Koch. Minimal neuroscience background required, but the more you know, the more you'll derive from this book. Focused on illustrating how complex networks can manifest behaviour (and consciousness). Outside of Koch's regular pursuits as an electrophysiology, he worked alongside Francis Crick (ya that one), to study arousal and consciousness. It's a fantastic read, and it's quite humbling.
Rhythms of the Brain by Gyorgy Buzsaki. Written for neuroscientists and engineers as an introductory textbook into network dynamics, oscillations, and behaviour. One of my favorite books in the field, but it can also be the most challenging.
Treatise of Man by Rene Descarte. Personal favorite, simply because it highlights how far we've come (e.g. pineal gland, pain, and animal spirits).
Synaptic Self by Joseph LeDoux provides the fantastic realization that "you are your synapse". Great circuit/network book written with a lot of psychological and philosophical considerations.
Finally...
Physical control of the mind--towards of psychocivilized society by the one and only Jose Delgado. (In)Famous for his experiments where he stopped a bull charging at him through amygdala stimulation- along with some similar experiments in people- Delgado skirts the line between good intention and mad science. It's too bad he's not taught more in history of neuroscience.
Just to be specific, this one, not First Aid for Step 1. The latter is good too, but the former really is much better -- esp for child psych, psychopharm, and therapy.
The diseases are actually quite old. They're both zoonoses, or diseases transmitted from animals to people. In the case of HIV from chimps, and in the case of Ebola we don't know the reservoir species. Maybe bats. From there, these diseases are able to transmit directly from human to human. HIV turned out to be quite well adapted for this, perhaps because SIV was in chimps for so long and also because unlike Ebola, HIV takes awhile to cause symptoms, and symptoms aren't as scary at least for awhile.
It's new patterns of population and travel that have amplified them (and a bit of bad luck). A great book on this for HIV is [Jacques Pepin's The Origin of AIDS] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Origins-AIDS-Jacques-Pepin/dp/0521186374). Essentially we can see based on historic biological samples and the pace of genetic viral mutation that HIV has crossed into humans from chimps multiple times and among primates as well. What changed was that HIV managed to infect a bush meat hunter then make it into a city with a lot of men and few women and then perhaps into a sex worker and . . . away we go. Whereas infecting one bush hunter who then infects his wife and she goes on to have an infected baby - well they all just die out, end of "epidemic."
[Laurie Garrett's The Coming Plague] (http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Plague-Emerging-Diseases-Balance/dp/0140250913/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1407301527&sr=1-1&keywords=the+coming+plague) and [David Quammen's Spillover] (http://www.amazon.com/Spillover-Animal-Infections-Human-Pandemic/dp/0393346617/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1407301582&sr=1-3&keywords=the+coming+plague) also address this question well.
✨INTJ ✨interested in Cardiology or Palliative Care
I knew this sounded familiar. I came across The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Medical Specialty by Brian Freeman, MD a couple of years ago and found this chart relating personality types and specialties: 1 and 2. Just something fun to look through!
https://www.amazon.com/Moth-Iron-Lung-Biography-Polio/dp/1717583679
Yes! 1) PANCE Prep Pearls, 2) Step-Up To Medicine, 3) First Aid for the Psychiatry Clerkship, 4) Pathophysiology Made Ridiculously Simple, 5) Clinical Neuroanatomy Made Ridiculously Easy.
2) Don't be afraid to change your study habits. You probably won't study the same way you did in undergrad or even post-bacc. It's a whole new ballgame.
I decided to be extra, and went to Amazon Deutschland. This is all English Language, American Medicine. Your practice likely will have some subtle differences.
Washington Manual:
https://www.amazon.de/Washington-Manual-Medical-Therapeutics-Paperback/dp/1975113489/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=1WTILRB0WLCUP&keywords=washington+manual+internal+medicine&qid=1564359495&s=gateway&sprefix=washington+manual%2Caps%2C223&sr=8-1
Pocket Medicine, 7th Edition (man, I'm now so many editions behind):
https://www.amazon.de/Pocket-Medicine-Massachusetts-Hospital-Handbook/dp/1975142373/ref=sr_1_3?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=2ZPC8XFN2EVIV&keywords=pocket+medicine+the+massachusetts+general+hospital&qid=1564359554&s=gateway&sprefix=pocket+medicine%2Caps%2C232&sr=8-3
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And, I'm ID. So...
Sanford
https://www.amazon.de/Sanford-Guide-Antimicrobial-Therapy-2019/dp/1944272097/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=sanford+therapy&qid=1564359652&s=gateway&sr=8-1
Tried to find the Johns Hopkins for ID and couldn't.
Those are more reference than than anything else, but are helpful.
Every PGY-1 at my program gets a copy of Molavi which is a great intro text but is obviously more focused on surg path and less applicable to forensics. DiMaio has a good, affordable book that's more specific.
The first holiday my wife was in school, I got her this book on choosing a medical specialty. The year she graduated, I got her a collection of papers that were specific to the specialty she matched into (her idea, not mine haha). When she started rotations, I got her an iPad--they weren't necessary for her rotations, but she got a lot out of it.
Hey u/excogito_ergo_sum, you should definitely look into mast cell activation syndrome based on symptoms and what meds have helped you. I highly, HIGHLY recommend reading this book about MCAS. Yes, it's $20 and not available in most libraries, but it is SERIOUSLY life changing. Best book I have read since I've been sick because it explains so. many. things. about mysterious symptoms and why the medications you're on are helping. Quite specifically, H1/H2 receptors are what Dr. Afrin (the author of the book and leading expert on mast cell activation syndrome) uses first in treatment - you are already on Zyrtec which is one of them. Next step is hydroxyzine, which you are already also on.
I used Doctors In Training videos! I put myself on a schedule using Cram Fighter . Then I would read that section in Step Up To Medicine. Lastly everyday I would do a random set of UWORLD questions. The actual test will be random so make sure to practice this way. During the last 4 weeks of studying (I studied for 7), I did an NBME or a UWSA. These are good to show you how the questions will be asked and what topics are important. DO NOT take your score to heart, I never scored above a 230 and I got a 262. Most important thing is keep learning from your mistakes and moving forward!
This book is not too bad. Has a profile for each specialty, as well as specific advice. I picked up the old version cheap a while ago.
The AAMC Careers in Medicine page is actually pretty good too. You have to sign up and log in to see the material, but they go through lots of stats. A new version of Charting Outcomes from the Match will likely be published by the NRMP/AAMC this year or next, and will have valuable data regarding each specialty's competitiveness.
But as far as "playing the game" goes, it's a much simpler game than the med school admissions process was. You don't have to have extensive lists of extracurriculars, and a lot of it boils down to a few big things you need to do.
Those are really the biggest things, and it applies to virtually every specialty. The more competitive a specialty is, the more you will need to excel in each of those areas.
Hang in there.
I'm not a doctor, just a random stranger on the internet, but I am familiar with some of the symptoms you describe, and I do feel obligated to share a piece of information that may or may not be useful to you.
There is an illness called "Mast Cell Activation Syndrome", which has not been recognized until very recently, though it has probably existed for at least a century, if not longer. Symptoms can be extremely diverse, but are commonly of inflammatory nature. The underlyiing cause is inappropriate activation of mast cells (a type of immune cell present in virtually every organ). Common symptoms include rash, gastrointestinal problems, but also "weird" reactions to medications, supplements or foods. It can also produce neuropsychatric symptoms like generalized anxiety or emotional liability ([source][3]). Treatment is not easy, but usually includes medication that inhibits mast cell mediators, like H1 antagonists (often used for "hay fever") or H2 antagonists (often used for reflux). Low dose benzodiazepines have also been reported to work. Also worth noting is that some classes of medication are knowns to interfere with the body's process for disposing of mast cell mediatiors, in particular [MAO-inhibitors][4], which includes some antidepressants.
For more information on this disease, I highly recommend an [overview article by LB Afrin and GJ Molderings][1], and even more highly recommend [Dr. Afrin's book][2], which collects many case reports.
[1]: http://www.wjgnet.com/2218-6204/full/v3/i1/1.htm
[2]: http://www.amazon.com/Never-Bet-Against-Occam-Activation/dp/0997319615
[3]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26162709
[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoamine_oxidase_inhibitor
Sadly, recognition among currently existing doctors is, ... uh, ... not up to par yet.
Anyway, I just wanted to throw this out here, to make sure that all information is on the table.
For study:
I would definitely start with a Med Chem textbook. I've not read the one that u/fourninetwo posted but I use Foye's Principles of Medicinal Chemistry pretty frequently (which is also on TPB) and think its pretty good. Or an amazon link
Oh right, sorry. First Aid Psych is a standalone book, NOT the psych chapter out of first aid for step 2.
This is what I'm referring to.
I just finished my IM residency. I know it's more than ten complaints, but take a look at the ones they chose to cover in this book for clerkship: https://www.amazon.ca/Case-Files-Internal-Medicine-Fourth/dp/0071761721
I personally found that the topics were really well selected and I found it really helpful to read around some of these cases/topics in preparation for starting residency a few years back. The content they cover in the book is more at the med student level so use it as a guide, not a comprehensive text.
I was diagnosed and treated by Dr. Afrin after some of my other doctors learned of and began to suspect MCAS.
Regarding where to start, Afrin would be an excellent choice, but I hear he has a waiting list over a year long for new patients. I have some physicians in my family, and most of the diagnosis-searching was done by them, I was not very involved with the process. My primary symptoms are depression and severe fatigue (though the two can become difficult to separate), and during this time (~1-2 years ago) I was mostly too exhausted to do anything other than lay in bed 24 hours a day listening to audiobooks and sometimes watching netflix when I had the energy. I can try to find out about other doctors that might be able to diagnose it.
The price I see on amazon is $14.99 for the kindle version, so either I'm out of touch with the reality of book prices or it's being sold expensively elsewhere.
If you can't afford it, I'd advise trying to find somewhere to pirate it from, the purpose of the book is to spread awareness of MCAS, profit is probably a secondary objective.
Anywayway I hope what I've written makes sense, I took a bunch of supposedly non-psycoactive industrial hemp extract a while ago from what has just turned out to be one of those less-than-reputable online vendors I talked about in another comment because I ran out of CBD from my usual source today and needed these until I could get some more and they came on while i was writing this and I am now high as fuck. I'll edit my top level comment tomorrow with some additional information and try to get back to everyone over the next few days (my fatigue is better but far from gone, can't say how long this will take), I didn't expect this much of a response!
https://www.amazon.com/First-USMLE-Step-2018-28th/dp/1260116123
Is this what you're talking about? Need to get some path review questions
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Should I get the First Aid for USMLE Step 1 now or wait for it to be updated in January... I'm going to be a first year but have heard its a useful tool for studying regardless
I use this book:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Top-100-Drugs-Pharmacology-Prescribing/dp/0702055166
And it covers most things I come across
This is the book I use. It is very digestible, quite a fun read and touches on topics like human decomposition in different environments, how Forensic Anthros actually do their job, the effects of trauma on bones in injuries at time of death, and skeletal differences in age, height, ancestry and sex. Amazon
They teach it at American universities right now. They were scientific terms first, and they won't stop being used because people have coopted them into slurs.
I work with people who have disabilities, and there are still national organizations with "mental retardation" in their names. A scientific term is a scientific term.
Also...
Feel free to see chapter 7 of Introduction to Forensic Anthropology (2010), which is entirely about attribution of ancestry. Figure 7.1 shows "Skulls of the three main ancestral groups: (a) White; (b) Asian; (c) Black." Table 7.2 lists the 16 "Anthroposcopic Characteristics of the Skull of the Three Main Ancestral Groups in the United States." On the postcranial skeletion, it explains that "Generally, Blacks are characterized by straight femoral shafts. However, with the exception of some Native Americans from South America, all Asians and Whites are characterized by femora that exhibit anterior curvature. (Stewart, 1962)"
There is plenty more information there for you. It is an entire chapters of the book, after all. Would you like to argue about chapter 8, "Attribution of Sex," as well?
you mean rubin's pathology? good idea. that's more appropriate than the books i deal with. i personally deal with books from residency to practice, while that books is on the medical education side and would be more appropriate for an undergrad.
http://www.amazon.com/Rubins-Pathology-Clinicopathologic-Foundations-Medicine/dp/1605479683/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1344551799&sr=1-1&keywords=rubin%27s+pathology
i can get you that book 20% + free shipping if you want
Check out Mast Cell Activation Disorder and a book by Dr. Lawrence Afrin:
https://www.amazon.com/Never-Bet-Against-Occam-Activation/dp/0997319615
I don't know if that is what you have, but it might be worth a look into this.
Robbins & Cotran Review Book has some great (and difficult) questions for pathology.
https://www.amazon.com/Robbins-Cotran-Review-Pathology-4e/dp/1455751553
I loved the Robbins & Cotran Review textbook. Note also the review textbook is different from the basic path textbook and also different from the robbins atlas (which is exclusively histo and morphology & questions on the same) https://www.amazon.com/Robbins-Cotran-Atlas-Pathology-3e/dp/1455748765
There is no legal pdf of Pathoma.
Personally, I like Rubin's better than Robbins. To me, Rubin's has more readability all-around. For example the section headings within a chapter are big and bold and they highlight the takeaway point from whatever disease you're looking up. Also the pictures and charts are more digestable for me because I'm more of a visual learner. I like Rubin's Sixth Ed, but the 7th is currently out and you might want to try that one if you're worried about being current. Although lectures should provide the most current information.
Robbins Basic Path isn't bad, but readability again was an issue with me.
Rubin's Path
https://www.ascp.org/store/productlisting/productdetail?productId=14750&gclid=Cj0KEQjwyN7JBRCZn7LKgb3ki8kBEiQAaLEsqrD3DrjY-xJluBDIyAHBm0t52XSelhctbeY0FRQ0gXIaAo1P8P8HAQ
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https://www.amazon.com/Certification-Clinical-Laboratory-Examinations-Guides/dp/0891895876
https://www.studystack.com/LaboratoryScience
In my medicinal chemistry classes (pharmacy specific) we use Foye's, which is supposedly the medicinal chemistry textbook. https://www.amazon.com/Foyes-Prin (possibly more for PharmD specific than hard Chem specific) ciples-Medicinal-Chemistry-Williams/dp/1609133455
literally, case files series.
here's IM as a preview: http://www.amazon.com/Files-Internal-Medicine-Fourth-Edition/dp/0071761721
The "Case Files" frequently read for Shelves and Step 2 prep, are those the Lange Case Files? Thank-you.
https://www.amazon.com/Files-Internal-Medicine-Fourth-LANGE/dp/0071761721
Board of Certification Study Guide for Clinical Laboratory Certification Examinations, 5th Edition link
http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Choosing-Medical-Specialty-Edition/dp/0071790276
This book might be helpful
The BEST (in my opinion) resource for someone who needs to be spoon fed histology and pathology (raises my own hand) is Robbin's Atlas of Pathology. It is a very double-edged sword resource though, because it has much more than is just on Step 1 but if you know what images have yield it will walk you through why the images are the way they are. A good strategy I had was to look up in the book every image that UWorld presented me.
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The link can be found here:
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https://smile.amazon.com/Robbins-Cotran-Atlas-Pathology/dp/1455748765/ref=smi_www_rco2_go_smi_g3905707922?_encoding=UTF8&%2AVersion%2A=1&%2Aentries%2A=0&ie=UTF8
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There is also an Anki deck full of Step 1 Histo floating around somewhere as well. It is super good for reviewing in the last couple of weeks.
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