Seidel's Guide to Physical Examination: An Interprofessional Approach (Mosby's Guide to Physical Examination)

The course was hard. Many times I hated not just this book, but life itself. Ripping the hair off my arm seemed more merciful. Frankly this course should be used as a CIA torture device. Or a way to drive people insane. It really is that awful. Unless you are deviant who enjoys intricate things with no right answers just for the sake of fun debate. Blah ha ha. 🤓😜Either way, don't expect any book on this topic to be a dummy's guide. Stay at a Holiday Inn express. Maybe you'll understand it. This book is likely as good as it's gonna get to simplify this course. My book had about a thousand post its with notes. Why? Well you know the image of a dead horse? Yeah they beat it INTO the ground making explanations. And when you're doing, you're wondering where the day went. I can almost speed read and twenty pages took me two days. That's about a chapter. Why? Well I'd read an except, eat massive chocolates, roam the house like a prison, banged my head, dreamed with my eyes open....Still, the authors tried. One book. One course... You haven't learned a thing. But you can sit and listen to professors have a discussion and understand 10%. You can read a scholarly article and say, hey, I recall that word. I don't know how the heck they did the math, but I know they have nifty computers to do that quantitative research. Hahahahahaha.Read it anyway. If you decide you want a DSW, you'll do research til you croak. Or if you desperately want an answer to some complex puzzle, you'll have to align with a senior social worker and do this. You'll only learn this by doing. And even then, a lifetime of doing and you won't perfect it. But you gotta start somewhere.So yes, I hated this book, mainly because the work was just impossibly hard. But that wasn't the books fault. That was the fault of my hard head, exhaustion and difficult concepts. Now that I'm on the other side, I'll hide the book awhile, forget the agony of it, and enjoy reading scholarly articles with more insight and a frame of reference. I can't judge the authors on the material, only their take on it, and it wasn't bad. I don't know anything about anything still, but I can pretend as if I had stayed at the holiday inn express.

One of my favorite textbooks! Easy to read an a lot of pictures!

Excellent book

Loads of good information.

Book has tons of useful guides to a ton of condition! For all ages, i recommend this book.

Such a great purchase. I also have the hard copy of the book, but it gets a little hard to carry around with all my other nursing school supplies. Love that I can highlight, make study guides etc. plus it makes studying with a busy toddler running around much easier! Highly recommend the e-version!

When I opened my book it had some parts highlighted and what I supposedly bought was a new book. At least is not that much that is highlighted but a little confused and disappointed that I paid for a new book.

Recommended book for school, user friendly and easy to understand

book was in good condition

Great resource text!

I had to buy this for a class I am taking. I spend a lot of time looking up terms on google as this book does not bother with definitions too much. I would not have picked it if it were up to me. But, it is excellent when it comes to photos of various conditions. It has its good points.