Becoming a Doctor: From Student to Specialist, Doctor-Writers Share Their Experiences
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Publisher Description
“As wise as it is well written. . . . A sustaining work of art.” —Linda Elisabeth Beattie, Courier-Journal
In this inspired anthology, doctors relate true stories from their professional lives, capturing disillusionments and triumphs encountered along the way. Essays by such distinguished writers as Peter D. Kramer, Kay Redfield Jamison, Danielle Ofri, Robert Coles, Lauren Slater, Sandeep Jauhar, and Perri Klass create a vivid mural of the medical world, from a student’s uneasy first encounter with a cadaver to a veteran doctor’s memories of the emotionally charged days and nights of residency.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Here s the invaluable insight patients so often miss from doctors revelations that expose the person underneath the white coat as not just capable but vulnerable and all too human. Gutkind, founder of the journal Creative Nonfiction and editor of numerous volumes of creative nonfiction, selects 19 men and women who bravely, and often lyrically, demonstrate that they are ordinary people engaged in an extraordinary profession. Perri Klass explains why she tries to teach her medical students that clinical medicine is all about stories. Zaldy S. Tan writes of how helping a beloved and very ill grandmother cured him of the smugness residents feel toward elderly patients. And Abigail Zuger discovered an unruly, demanding patient was suddenly compliant all because I once treated her like a person, not a patient. In their stories, each physician confirms one simple, powerful truth, as noted by Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Coles: it is important to be a scientist who knows how to listen, how to think, and how to express himself as clearly as possible.
Customer Reviews
Great read
If you are considering med school, reading this helped to remove the glamorous shell over the profession. I believe this book put the raw truth in a better prospective for me to make an educated decision on my career choice.