Intern Intern

Intern

A Doctor's Initiation

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Publisher Description

Intern is Sandeep Jauhar's story of his days and nights in residency at a busy hospital in New York City, a trial that led him to question our every assumption about medical care today. Residency—and especially the first year, called internship—is legendary for its brutality. Working eighty hours or more per week, most new doctors spend their first year asking themselves why they wanted to be doctors in the first place.

Jauhar's internship was even more harrowing than most: he switched from physics to medicine in order to follow a more humane calling—only to find that medicine put patients' concerns last. He struggled to find a place among squadrons of cocky residents and doctors. He challenged the practices of the internship in The New York Times, attracting the suspicions of the medical bureaucracy. Then, suddenly stricken, he became a patient himself—and came to see that today's high-tech, high-pressure medicine can be a humane science after all.

Now a thriving cardiologist, Jauhar has all the qualities you'd want in your own doctor: expertise, insight, a feel for the human factor, a sense of humor, and a keen awareness of the worries that we all have in common. His beautifully written memoir explains the inner workings of modern medicine with rare candor and insight.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2007
December 26
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
320
Pages
PUBLISHER
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
832.5
KB

Customer Reviews

KMuzzey ,

Incredible read.

If you've ever wondered what the life of an aspiring doctor was like, here's your answer. It's a riveting read. And if you're a fan of medical drama (I'm talking to you, HOUSE addicts) this book is filled with case studies and experiences that are fascinating, scary, page-turning and thought-provoking. Fantastic book.

RuRuRe ,

Loved this book!

Eye opening, disturbing, yet reassuring. I could hardly put this book down.

tadthanks ,

Insight

Excellent insight on residency. I truly enjoyed reading this book and highly recommend this.

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