The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (799 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0804138672 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Starphoenix said The Real Resident Will Entertain You!. As I plan to return to school for my premed prerequisites at the "advanced age" of 50, I love reading real-life accounts of med school and residency. This was my favorite thus far. I couldn't put the book down! Raw and unflinching, I felt like he was taking me along with him. I love that he shared his real doubts and struggles as well as his growth as a physician. I've seen complaints. "Excellent!" according to Amazon Customer. Really enjoyed reading this book. It gave me great insight into what it takes to become a doctor. I did not have a clue. We tend to make doctors out to be super human, but in the end they are just normal people who work hard to perfect their craft.. Three Stars Humorous at times and even insightful on occasion, but over all a bit repetitious in spots.
The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly is one of the most powerful books about a doctor-in-training I have ever read. McCarthy’s engrossing memoir of his internship year is told with uncommon frankness and perception. “A real delightan entertaining window into an unknown world.”—USA Today“It's an account so engaging that I went from swearing never to let an intern near me to understanding exactly why the doctor-training process works the way it does.”—Entertainment Weekly“McCarthy gives readers a brutally honest, often darkly comical glimpse into the formative days of his medical careeran enthralling account of the metamorpho
His first book, Odd Man Out, was a New York Times bestseller.. MATT MCCARTHY is an assistant professor of medicine at Cornell and a staff physician at Weill Cornell Medical Center. His work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, Slate, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Deadspin, where he writes the Medspin column
But when a new admission to the critical care unit almost died his first night on call, he found himself scrambling. In medical school, Matt McCarthy dreamed of being a different kind of doctor—the sort of mythical, unflappable physician who could reach unreachable patients. McCarthy would learn even more from the people he cared for, including a man named Benny, who was living in the hospital for months at a time awaiting a heart transplant. But no teacher could help McCarthy when an accident put his own health a