Lange Q&A Surgery, Fifth Edition

I'm surprised of the 1-star reviews on here. I originally bought this book based on other med students' recommendations. I thought the book was excellent in preparing me for the Surgery shelf. Compared to Pretest, I thought the questions in this book was better representative of the actual shelf style type of questions. Yes, there are errors in the book, but these are extremely minor and very obvious (ie. Answer section writes choice B but actually meant A, and it was obvious because the explanation still correlates with choice A). I mainly used this for my practice questions (vs Pretest), coupled with NMS Surgery Case book, and I received a score of 1+ standard deviation above the national mean for the shelf.

The publishers should be ashamed of themselves for printing a book with this many errors in it. Numerous questions are unreadable due to grammatical errors, omitted words, and misspellings. Many, many answers have incorrect letters in the answer section, explain more than one answer choice as correct, or are simply based on incorrect factual information. The only advantage to this book is that you learn a lot by looking at alternative sources to verify the terrible information in it.

This book already has it reputation. I purchased it for my exam. It contains board type surgical exams with explanations. I have the older edition which is excellent and found that there are much additions and updates on the newer edition. I advice anyone entering surgical board exam to have a copy of this excellent book.

I only used this and Lange Case files for my surgery shelf and got an advanced. I'm a crummy multiple choice test taker so I figure if I could use this book and get that score, most anyone could. I still have to say that the best way to do well on the surgery shelf is to know your Internal medicine (i.e. do Lange Q&A for medicine). I even had a question on the surgery shelf that was exactly the same as one on my medicine shelf. But if you want a text that helps you understand surgery and questions you'll probably be pimped on this is the book.

It took me a long while deciding to purchase this question book because of the 1 star ratings here on Amazon. However, being in dire need of more surgery questions to prepare for exam and after exhausting other available sources, I bought it used from Amazon for a few dollars. The questions are very good and relevant for the exam. Even if several have missed words or some absent lab data, you can still figure it out (understand on what they test you in that question) and answer it. I also observed that it went very well with FA for Surgery Clerkship in terms of content and organization. I liked the questions and they helped me a lot polishing my surgery knowledge. If you can get over the awful editing, it's worth it.

I was sent a book that was described as being new, but literally every page had writing and highlighting on it. Thoroughly disappointed! It was a waste of money, time, and effort.

WAY TOO MANY ERRORS IN THE ANSWER KEY! YOU HAVE ONE JOB.....TO BE CONSISTENTLY CORRECT IN THE MATERIAL AND ANSWERS!!

This is the worst book I have ever read for grammatical mistakes, wrong answer selections, incorrect question stems, etc. It is embarrassing. That's funny how the publisher/authors can't wait to take our $35 or whatever, but they can't be troubled to proof-read their own work. Come on guys, have some pride.

Excellent book.Excellent service.keep it up.

While I got a good review of my surgery rotation, and was well-prepped for the NBME, the typos in this book drove me absolutely crazy. This book needs a really good edit before the next edition.