Essentials of Pathophysiology: Concepts of Altered Health States

Pretty decent at explaining things into detail.I never needed it during nursing school (BSN), 600 slides of power points during class every 2 weeks was enough knowledge for me.It doesn't talk about everythin you need to know. It doesn't cover every diagnosis, it doesn't meddle much into the mental health so you wont find much on things like anxiety, but you will find plenty of physical problems. A lot of very uncommon physical health issues will be in this book as well as some of the more common ones like diabetes and heart disease

I like that this book gets as deep as you want to dive into patho, but sometimes you just want a brief summation of the pathophysiology of a disease. Overall, I like the book despite its length and will continue to use it well after my class is over.

This book encompasses a very in-depth and comprehensive view of pathology and its related intricate physiology. The author went length providing readers with the most essential and updated information without overwhelming students with redundant, unnecessary details. The book arrived in mint condition, intact CD-room, and access code to online resources. Illustrations are decent, and all of these sources cited in bibliography in the end of each chapter are valid and reliable. This is an excellent book recommended for pre-med, pre-pharm, and nursing students to enhance the vast knowledge of disease process with sturdy foundation.

Great book with pretty easy to read/understand descriptions of pathophysiologic functions. If you rent it though, be prepared to not get the cdrom that comes with it. It has great questions for review for each chapter on it.

It could be the specific instructor, however, I found there is a lot of useful information in this book that can be applied in a clinical setting (when applied with your own knowledge to avoid "textbook practice") but it did not have the information I needed to pass the tests in my class.

Very useful resource. Lent my copy to a friend and have to buy a new one now. Use it every week!

I tutor for Pathophysiology and I highly recommend this book! Very helpful in understanding patho! Also, it comes with a CD that has practice questions that are very useful and I found students who do the practice questions in the CD typically do better on the exams.

Book was in great shape to have been used. Minor highlighting and wear, but great overall. It was one year older than the book I was supposed to buy for the course but there were only minor changes, so still totally usable!

great text it gives a review of all the systems and in the next one or two chapters describes the conditions for each system, I guess the reason its a five because I have no complaints, well I shouldn't say that the disc has some stuff but not everything they could improve on the disc but the text is easy to understand for students, I would recomend reading the review chapter before class and reading the conditions covered in class after.

Great textbookReally relevant information for my 'Medicine for Dentistry' Subject.Easy to read, yet still has a sufficient depth of information to provide a solid understanding of the subject.

Excellent book and it came in the condition that was advertised. I really was very surprised.

Very good book

This is a great book. It's very dense, but nails every point you'll need to know about the given subject (currently brushing up on oncology). It's a dry book, so be prepared to spend some time reading it, digesting it and dying a little inside if you're using it as a study tool. Definitely useful; the only reason I gave it 4 stars is the presentation of the subject matter is about as dry as the dunes in the sahara in the middle of July. Keep this book out of direct sunlight.