Although I am not shy about criticizing things I don't agree with or like, I usually don't start the discussion. I'll break this trend to bash on Trumble's Hand Surgery book.
At my program, it is required reading for our academic conferences and we've been using it for the past 2 years. I've read every chapter in it at least twice. This book is filled with so many typos I can't stand it. And it's not just simple misspellings or punctuation--its saying radius instead of ulna or FDS instead of FDP, etc. Things that are so wrong you actually have to know what's right to know there's an error in the text.
The descriptions of surgical technique are far too limited to learn how to do a procedure. The fact that he references himself a zillion times per chapter and shamelessly tauts the book in conferences only adds to my hatred of this book.
About the only good thing I have to say about it is that if you have to read a chapter for an academic lecture, Trumble's chapters are way shorther than Green's. But if I'm going to have a book that I will use when I'm in private practice (hand surgeon or not), there is no doubt that I would ever rely on Trumble's book--Green's is far superior.
