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| The Language of Medicine | 
 enlarge | Author: Davi-ellen Chabner
Publisher: Saunders
Discount Category: Book
Selling Price: $63.95
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Customer Ratings:  21 comments
Media: Paperback
Edition: 8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1030
Shipping Weight (pounds): 5.1
Dimensions (inch): 10.8 x 8.5 x 1.6
ISBN: 1416034927
Dewey Decimal Number: 610
EAN: 9781416034926
Publication Date: February 14, 2007
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language of medicine October 30, 2008
The shipping was on time and the book arrived in the condition as promised online. Overall satisfaction is a 10
Can't review - lost in mail - never received October 15, 2008
Can't review - lost in mail - never received - gave full rating because it's not the books fault.
 worksheets un-able to tear out October 3, 2008
book was okay for a med terms book, however we had to purchase this for a class and we could not tear the pages out to turn in so you can imagine how great all of those worksheets look!
Great! September 29, 2008
Took a little bit for it to get here......but it was exactly what I needed and wanted!
 Great Text -- Horrible CD-ROM August 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this comment useful.
I actually have recently purchased this textbook/ CD-ROM combo from my college bookstore for a class I am taking and I find the book to be fantastic. It is just as all these many, many others have reported it to be: A SOLID 5-STARS! However, I could not possibly be more disappointed with the CD. All the PCs, laptops, a tablet pc, and even one iMac where I am far, far exceed the minimum system requirements to run this software, but it is nowhere near being in the same league as the textbook/ workbook it supposedly supplements. It is so poorly constructed that some of (many of) the features are practically incomprehensible. My very American, English-speaking, raised on computers, extremely pc-literate (but not always the most politically correct or polite!) son took one look at the page on my screen and said, "It looks like some Russian-speaking translator threw some stuff together at the last minute and ripped all of you off." My college-loving son is currently working toward his third degree at the same school I am attending and has quite a bit of experience with textbooks which include a CD that is supposed to make the set worth twice the price of the book alone (but the book is never available for purchase new without the CD.)
Buy this great book, even if you are stuck paying a lot for the inclusion of its accompanying CD-ROM. The book is awesome & I hope as my course goes forward, I will continue to be so impressed and will easily learn everything it has to offer. I am enjoying spending time in these beautiful pages so much in fact, that I would not even mind too terribly if it did not come so clearly & easily. This edition is, after all, Ms. Chabner's eighth go at it. She obviously knows her stuff and knows how to give it to her readers in meaningful, thought provoking, and permanent ways. It is obvious with this kind of quality what our author has been concentrating on -- and it has not been on computer programming. We should all be very grateful her tremendous talents are displayed in this book The Language of Medicine. Anyway, I bet every single computer user out there, if honest, would have to admit it would not be the first time they have been burned from purchasing lousy software. (And I am talking about the kind of software you buy because you want to own that software, not just because it was bundled with something else that you were really buying.)
Before I go, I do have to tell you that there are several sources of free Tech Support included with the CD-ROM installation instructions. I am sure this is a good thing. At the very least, it indicates responsibility, pride, and concern on the part of the software producers. From my own experiences with similarly behaving computer programs though, I do not hold out any real hope of achieving excellence in the performance of this software. It just has too many problems to expect a phone call, an email, or a FAQ page to completely start over at the beginning and create a well-written program that accomplishes all the functions this CD-ROM claims to do.
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