Aaron Berkowitz M.D. Ph.D.Clinical Pathophysiology Made Ridiculously Simple: Spiral Bound Edition

I am currently a nursing student and my core nursing classes start in the fall. I’m taking a prep course and our professor told us to brush up on our patho. I saw this book here and read a sample page. My God this book is so good! Wow it just blows my mind how everything just makes sense now. I highly recommend getting this book if you’d like to refresh your mind on patho. I haven’t finished reading the entire thing, but wow I seriously love this book so far. I feel so smart because I understand certain disease processes now. It’s so easy to read too. There are even simple diagrams that are also easy to follow. EVERYTHING JUST MAKES SENSE NOW. It’s not a colored book with flashy images, but it works…for me at least. I wish this author would make an entire book series of topics for nursing students! It’s so good I felt compelled to make a review.Also it says there is an interactive thingy for differential dx, I was able to find it and access it on their website.

Excellent!! Exactly, what I was looking for. It’s very organized and good information! I would recommend it for sure.

Este libro es una herramienta imprescindible para estudiantes y profesionales de la salud. Explica conceptos complejos con claridad y un enfoque didáctico. Las ilustraciones y casos clínicos enriquecen la comprensión de cada tema. Está actualizado con los últimos avances médicos. Sin duda, una obra de referencia confiable y completa.

This book is very WELL WRITTEN. The title is a bit of a misnomer because pathophYSIOLOGY is actually ridiculously complicated, BUT this book explains it well. I gave the book 4 stars rather than 5 as the entire book is black and white and the graphics are very very basic, so if you're a person into great charts and needs pictures, the book isn't for you. If you need great writing, get the book.

Exactly as described. Excellent condition.

I just opened it I just read it and I already understand more from it than from my textbooks thanks for making this book. I have been crying thinking I was going to fail out of nursing school because I just couldn’t wrap my mind around the pathophysiology. Thank you so much !

I am a nursing student who learns things by understanding them on a deep level (causes, patterns, connections) rather than by memorizing isolated fragments. So this book is excellent for someone like me.Unlike the assigned textbook for pathophysiology, this book begins its survey of the clinical problems that can affect each body system with a "big picture" preview--and always in the simplest, clearest language possible. Here, for instance, is how the pulmonary system chapter begins: "What problems could affect the alveolar sac and/or airways? 1. The sac is already filled with something other than air. 2. The sac does not open adequately. 3. The sac is unable to expire adequately due to either obstruction of the airways or decreased elastic recoil of the sac itself." The rest of the chapter simply fills in the details of these three possibilities.Moreover, the book is filled with extremely useful devices for remembering and organizing the information presented. There are on virtually every page very clear diagrams, pictures, or formulas that capture a central concept in a memorable figure. For instance, a figure depicting the renal system, with blood supply, nephron, and collecting system (ureter, etc) uses little pointing hands to show the classification of kinds of acute renal failure: prerenal, intrinsic, and postrenal. Second, the book has many helpful mnemonics. For instance, "aldosteRoNe causes Reabsorption of Na (sodium)."Finally, the book provides detailed but wonderfully clear and simple explanations of virtually every pathophysiological problem, including many of the major diagnostics for distinguishing them. Moreover, it frequently uses questions in the text to give the reader a chance to think about the problem. For instance, in discussing hyperthryroidism, the author points out the two main mechanisms: "The thyroid over-secretes thyroid hormone (primary) or the pituitary over-stimulates the thyroid to secrete thyroid hormone (secondary). One needs only one lab value to distinguish between primary and secondary hyperthyroidism. Which one? Think about negative feedback. If the thyroid itself secretes lots of hormone 'without being told to,' this would increase negative feedback on the pituitary. So in primary hyperthyroidism TSH will be low."Plainly, one cannot come to this book without an adequate background in basic anatomy and physiology. Nor does the book presume to provide detailed coverage of everything, as Guyton and Hall do. But it is the best short overview of pathophysiology I have ever seen, and it helped me tremendously in understanding and therefore thinking critically about clinical problems.

Very good but I wanted more in depth treatise.Depth is excellent but I am demanding and I wanted a book that delves into the "chemistryof the physiology".