Merritt's Neurology by Lewis P. Rowland and Timothy A. Pedley

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 26-OCT-05, Volume 294, Issue 16, Joseph Fermaglich, MD, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC -- "Merritt, an avatar of neurology, would rejoice that his successors have sustained his work with such expertise and intellect. Merritt's Neurology demands a readily accessible place on the practitioner's shelf. Students and trainees will hone their neurologic skills by consulting the book, and those preparing for the neurology board examinations will find it a highly valuable resource. Bestowed on the 11th edition is the Babinski award: two toes up."-Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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This book has few merits. No pun intended. It has a good introductory section on the symptoms of neurological conditions. However, it fails to provide the reader with an approach to diagnosis which is a pitfall for most clerks, interns and neurology and internal medicine residents. Remember always ask yourself WHERE is lesion ( brain spinal cord nerve NM junction or muscle ) and WHAT is lesion ( pathological process with respective differential diagnosis ). This book fails to do this which is inconceivable. As a reference it falls on more than occasion. The sections are incomplete and not comprehensive. There is little on entrapment neuropathy or spinal root problems. I do NOT recommend this text to any medical students ( get lindsay/bone/callender text on neurology and neurosurgery ). Neurology and medical residents should get a subscription to medlink neurology and not waste their time or money on the text.