Intern: A Doctor's Initiation
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Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Written By: Sandeep Jauhar
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 610.92
EAN: 9780374146597
ISBN: 0374146594
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2007-12-26
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date: 2007-12-26
Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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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.
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Summary: Great Primer For Med Students Entering Internship Phase
Comment: Intern, by Sandeep Jauhar , shows that the human enterprise of medicine is not for the faint of heart. This nonfiction book illustrates the challenges and successes of a medical student going through an internship program in the United States. None of the challenges of the med student are beyond the touch or influence of the med student's internship. Everything in his world is about or impacts his internship.
Huge sacrifices made and philosophies are changed as the intern develops into a more advanced student of medicine and is able to come to grips with his own limitations. Also, the limitations of medicine are evident throughout the book's fascinating pages.
Don't be mislead by the book's title in thinking this is for only those involved in the world of medicine; it isn't. This is a brutally honest and realistic look at today's education of our future doctors in America. This book is for everyone who wants to know more about our medical system. If you aren't interested in medicine, Intern; a Doctor's Initiation will make you interested.
`Intern' by Sandeep Jauhar is to medical students what `One L' by Scott Turow has been to law students. I'd be surprised if this book isn't the one must-read book to read before joining a medical internship within a couple of years.
Title: Intern; A Doctor's Initiation
Author: Sandeep Jauhar
Published By: Farrar, Stratus and Ciroux [...]
Review By; Diana Rohini LaVigne, Indian Life & Style Magazine [...]
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Summary: realistic book
Comment: This is one of the best books I have read on a persons experience in medical training
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Summary: Best book I've read about medicine
Comment: I am in the healthcare field, but more importantly for this review, I love reading, especially memoir. Intern is one of the best memoirs I have read in a long time, and certainly the most insightful book I have ever read about medicine and medical culture. It is artfully written and portrays doctors and the difficult profession they work in with unsparing honesty. Highly recommended for most readers!
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Summary: Don't buy - Reverse Discrimination
Comment: I am in the health care business. I am Asian. I have been in ER and Trauma ICU. Just don't buy this book. You will not get a feel of ER or trauma experience from this book b/c it is too vague of detail. I don't believe what he is saying. He said his father get discriminated in America. Just stop all this reverse discrimination complains. I am grateful to be in America, land of freedom, to have a chance to study in college, and have a chance to succeed. Do you see all white professors in college? Do you see all white doctors in hospital? Do you see all white teachers in school? The truth is there are a lot of Indian doctors and professors in America. So how is this discrimination? Remember, we are going to have a Black president within two months. Again, just stop all the whining about discrimination. America granted Dr Sandeep and his brother MD doctor degree for one family. In my book, America is too generous.
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Summary: DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!!!
Comment: Dr. Jauhar has heard it before and he still doesn't have a clue. In his book Intern, he used 'the power of the pen', to retaliate against those who most likely, unknowingly, made him feel insecure. It is obvious to the reader that he never felt 'good enough' to be at Weill Cornell. The character known as 'Dr. David Klein' (not his real name) was one of the most beloved physicians at NYH - anything but an elitist. Most of his patients were of the low-middle class socioeconomic status. He was kind to everyone, patients and staff alike. The chapter Pride and Prejudice is a bunch of disingenuous garbage. It is interesting, and quite cowardly that Dr. Jauhar waited until 'Dr David Klein' died to put these words to print. The irony: Don't you live on the Upper East Side, Mr Elitist?
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