Netter's Concise Orthopaedic Anatomy, Updated Edition (Netter Basic Science)

I am not interested in ortho BUT this is the standard resource used by those medical students who ARE interested in ortho as a career. For a student who has other ambitions ( mine happen to be in pediatrics), this is still useful in better understanding anatomy, radiologic testing, ortho clinical exams, and common ortho problems. It doesn't matter what field of medicine peaks your interest - this book will be critical to proper assessment of musculoskeletal issues. 100% recommendation even if you are interested in something other than ortho.

I work in pain mgmt as an advanced practice provider. This book is great for PE and anatomy with neuro in a quick easy access manner. I love this book. Great for review, the one-offs and general stuff. Really great tool especially since there is an electronic access with the book too. This book is a major must have in ortho, pmr or neuro.

The best book to have in ortho. I use it every single day.

Perfect for my orthopedic surgery rotation in medical school with my Netter-loving surgical attending.

Purchased as a personal reference, and as a visual aid in explaining things to patients who have questions about their problems. Just received the book early this morning, and began going through it. This book is excellent. I really like the fact that this is about orthopedics and only orthopedics. Previously I had used a set of the Netter flash cards for this purpose, but a colleague showed me this, and it was much better for our purposes. Unlike the flash cards, this is a handy "all in one" reference, and it is not cluttered up with information unrelated to my area of practice. Also, I can drop it in the pocket of my lab coat if I want to take it along. No cards to fumble through or misplace. If you are working in orthopedics, or planning to do so, I would recommend this book without reservation.

Purchasing this book I thought it was only going to be about anatomy & a few clinical facts, to my surprise this book is loaded with clinically relevant information from disorders of all types including & I emphasize fractures & their management which for me is somewhat a grueling topic. It also contains very good points on history taking & physical examination that helped me personally to organize myself. This book was truly my compass in studying orthopedics. This is one of those books that you buy & say to yourself what would have I done with out it.

this book is amazing. I bought it as a physician assistant student about to begin my orthopedic rotation and have continued to use it working as a surgical Ortho PA. Each chapter is dedicated to an anatomical region (very well divided), covering that region's anatomy and most common pertinent conditions, highlighting key points of the history and physical, diagnostic imaging, treatment, and surgical options for each. My only complaint is that it sort of haphazardly goes over provocative tests, some only using pictures instead of explanations, and not even including some of the commonly used tests in every day orthopedics. But nonetheless, this book got me through my rotation and the beginning of my career as a surgical orthopedic PA. I used it every day before scrubbing hand, sports, and joints cases to refresh my memory about the anatomy and pathology. I would say it is less useful for surgical exposures and dangers (although each chapter touches a bit on both) but at least gets you started. I absolutely think any Ortho PA or med student needs this book, even a resident as a quick reference, and anyone in primary/urgent care who wants to understand basic orthopedics when they encounter it.

I'm a Sports Medicine fellow and I carry this thing around with me everywhere I go. I love it, quick and easy reference, very portable. Just an excellent quick reference book for learners. I've used it to quickly teach residents during clinic as well.

Il manuale più utile che ho!

I recevied it, the cover of the book was very bad, it seems like it was used before, pages inside are ok but the cover !!!! I am really really really disappointed !

Useful book and concise

really good book for junior doctors - has summaries of all major areas, including common approaches, which means I look less like an idiot when I'm scrubbing on a new type of operation. would recommend small format. easy to carry around

Though it's costly for such a small book, I find my self referring it repeatedly during my reading. The pictures are small in some places but it's packed with information. The write up is also very well done and relevant.