I owned the first edition of this book during medical school while taking a rotation in Anesthesiology, and it was an INVALUABLE aid! I could find many answers to questions I was "pimped" on during the rotation, which were hard or impossible to find in the standard large text books. I highly recommend it to anyone doing a rotation in, planning on going into, or working in and around Anesthesiologists! An absolutely wonderful book, buy it!

Where you can get the "MEAT" of each area without reading a lot of miscellaneous information.

Having recently written the US and Canadian Boards for radiology, and having done umpteen CD roms and teaching files, I found this book to be one of the most organized and focussed in preparing for board discussions. It covers a wide spectrum of cases and gives pointed pertinent positives and negatives when reviewing the differential. Granted, it is not completely comprehensive (but then, there is no single book that is... oh, if only there were) It is not a book that I would start studying with, but, in the end, near the final few weeks, it is a good quick read (1-2 days)to test yourself and pick up some pointers (it is also much cheaper than the course itself!).