Full name: Intern: A Doctor's Initiation

Author: Sandeep Jauhar Year: 2007 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Science, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780374146597 9780374531591 0374146594 0374531595

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. Similar books: Singular Intimacies by Danielle Ofri Hot Lights, Cold Steel by Michael J. Collins The Intern Blues by Robert Marion Doctored by Sandeep Jauhar Trust Me, I'm a (Junior) Doctor by Max Pemberton On Call by Emily R. Transue A Not Entirely Benign Procedure by Perri Klass One Doctor by Brendan Reilly MD Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives by Pamela Grim The Making of a Surgeon by William A. Nolen The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly by Matt McCarthy Direct Red by Gabriel Weston Something for the Pain by Paul Austin White Coat by Ellen L. Rothman Internal Medicine by Terrence Holt The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman Spare Parts by Joshua Davis The Snoring Bird by Bernd Heinrich Albert Einstein and His Inflatable Universe by Mike Goldsmith Buckminster Fuller's Universe by Lloyd Steven Sieden