shaun manesh says:

In 1998 I taught a class in medical technique for medical assistants. I had a text to teach yourself medical terminology. I went to Ingrin Medical book store and reviewed several books. I loved Harrison’s book and it came in quite handy as I was hired by the hospital to manage their health care. The book is very portable and needs to be revised often as medical advances and new terms come into being. It is very easy to understand, as my degree was to work with elderly in need of managed health care.
Rating: 1 / 5

Joe Cool says:

There is a reason why med students learn anatomy, histology,embryology, physiology,and biochemistry before picking up Harrison’s, so I snicker when non-MD’s think they can read and understand ( with the help of Taber’s medical dictionary, which by the way is used by nurses, physicians in training use Dorland’s) a medical textbook, especially one like Harrison’s.( What is especially humorous is that one reviewer recalled that the textbook was titled “Tinsley & Harrison “(sic)…. funny because Harrison’s first name was Tinsley, as in Tinsley Harrison, MD).This is like a layperson reading a computer manual then taking apart his PC and trying to put it back together. To reiterate a layperson has a better chance of understanding Hippocrates’ aphorisms in the original Greek than Harrison’s. Remember a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. To the reviewer that has Tinsley Harrison’s earlier edition textbook, the medical information there is as useful as a screen door in a submarine. If it’s writing style, literature and actual history of medicine that you are after, may I suggest “The Practice and Principles of Medicine” by Sir William Osler.
Rating: 5 / 5

Francesco Falaschi says:

If you don’t know already this book, you are not an internist!
You may want not to buy it, but you must have access somehow to it.
Rating: 5 / 5