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I entered a graduate level nursing class with nothing more than high school biology (that was decades ago) and was presented with the daunting task of reading the entire book. I wasn't sure about successfully completing the course until realizing that this textbook was one of the best I've ever come across. The material was well-organized and the text easy to follow. The authors made good use of tables, illustrations, photos, and the like. I really appreciated bold-faced key words in the text. Each chapter concluded with a summary and a list of key terms including page numbers. Had I used another text, I might not have gotten an "A" in the course. Thanks!

I am two weeks into my pathophysiology class and am saddened and frustrated by the level of complexity of this textbook. Each paragraph, if not each sentence, is so dense that my classmates and I are already lamenting how little we expect to learn from this class. By the time I'm walking out the door of class I've either forgotten most of the wet cement of what I've read or am hopelessly confused by the deluge of terms. Most of my classmates are pre-nursing students (I am taking this as a pre-requisite to a physical therapy PhD) and so we are highly motivated to learn. Obviously, there are students out there who need this level of detail, but even for them, who could get through seventeen hundred pages of this? Perhaps the fault lies with whomever chose this book for lowly undergrads, and for a single semester class. Professors, please take heed. Give us a book from which we can learn.

This is a great patho book. I'm glad the class I'm taking required it. I have bought a lot of books for classes that were either way too detailed or less detailed than they needed to be. I really like this one. It may be a little more in-depth than the typical undergraduate student wants, but for me, it is just right.

The text is very informative. It goes in more depth than my anatomy or physiology books have done on some subjects. I have found it is hard to read. I'm usually lucky to get through 5 pages before I fall asleep. Other books I've read are more interesting to read, but they lack the detail.

The only real complaint that I have is a few errors that I came across in the book. If you're going to spend all the time it takes to read the book, the information at least needs to be correct.