About the Book Samples of some of the book presentations * A 62 years old white female patient 10 years s/p cholecystectomy presents to the ER with RUQ abdominal pain , 101 fever and jaundice. You are called to see the patient , what do you do ?....What tests do you order..No Gastroenterologist is available to do ERCP...What do you do..? During surgery you find....etc. All answers are clearly and accurately described. * After a tough right hemicolectomy for cecal CA in the OR during which you had to transfuse the patient two units of packed red cells , the RR nurse calls you at home to inform you that the patient's BP dropped to 85/50 and he has very little urine output and not responding to the fluid challenge ordered by the resident MD on call , what do you do ? what kind of questions do you ask on the phone and what orders do you give ? ..When you arrive to the RR .. what do you check for..? After ruling out the common causes like hypovolumia , respiratory troubles , Cardiac events...etc. what do you think is going on with the patient ? How do you treat blood transfusion incompatibility reaction...? * A 16 years old boy with a lump in the upper inner aspect of his thight...noticed after a football game..what do you do..what kind of biopsy..how do you resect..what postOp treatment do you recommend...? * During a laporotomy on a car accident patient..you find a large retroperitoneal hematoma behind the second portion of the duodenum..what do you do..? * A large soft tissue lump in the inner upper aspect of the thight of a 16 years old boy (Sarcoma)  * A dark itchy nevus on the back of an actress (Melanoma)  * Gunshot wound in the mid thight  * Pelvic fracture with rectal bleeding *A large pancreatic cyst and ascites in a shocky patient in the ER....etc. All the above presentations -and hundreds of others- are discussed in length and a step by step scenarios are answered accurately based on the most solid and updated references available . Buy It "Archives of Surgery" Journal article "Archives of Surgery" reviewed the book..it said it is an excellent text..well written , great source of information....etc. Other surgeons who took the exam said " I could'nt have passed without this book.." " it was worth every penny to purchase it..." Virtualy all courses given in the country for the purpose of preparation for the oral Board exam recommend this book..and most of the large Surgical Residency Programs have purchased the book for their residents for the same purpose.. The book is updated every year so you are always getting the latest edition with the most updated information. We estimate that a solid 85 to 90% of the questions being asked on the oral or the recertifying exam are covered in the book . This continues to be true year over year because of the frequent updates of the book and the hard work of our team in interviewing and teleconferencing with surgeons who have taken recently their oral Board exam. Buy It