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  The Intern Blues: The Timeless Classic About the Making of a Doctor

  by Marion, Robert Marion

  While supervising a small group of interns at a major New York medical center, Dr. Robert Marion asked three of them to keep a careful diary over the course of a year. Andy, Mark, and Amy vividly describe their real-life lessons in treating very sick children; confronting child abuse and the awful human impact of the AIDS epidemic; skirting the indifference of the hospital bureaucracy; and overcoming their own... (more)
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  White Coat: Becoming a Doctor at Hardvard Medical School

  by Ellen L. Rothman, Ellen Rothman

  White Coat is Dr. Ellen Lerner Rothman's vivid account of her four years at Harvard Medical School.Describing the grueling hours and emotional hurdles she underwent to earn the degree of M.D., Dr. Rothman tells the story of one woman's transformation from a terrified first-year medical studen into a confident, competent doctor. Touching on the most relevant issues in medicine today--such as HMOs, aIDS, and... (more)
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  A Not Entirely Benign Procedure : Four Years As a Medical Student

  by Perri Klass

  Surviving Harvard Medical School, Klass offers an unflinchingly honest view of this journey--from the perspective of a woman and mother in a field dominated by men and masculine sensibilities. Like Melvin Konner's Becoming a Doctor: A Not Entirely Benign Procedure, Klass's work has "wit, intelligence, and a great deal of insight" (The New York Times Book Review).
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  Baby Doctor

  by Perri Klass

  The author of Other Women's Children chronicles her first three years as a practicing pediatrician, describing the pressure, the sleeplessness, the variety of cases, and more. 15,000 first printing.
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  The House of God: The Classic Novel of Life and Death in an American Hospital

  by Samuel Shem

  Now a classic! The hilarious novel of the healing arts that reveals everything your doctor never wanted you to know. Six eager interns -- they saw themselves as modern saviors-to-be. They came from the top of their medical school class to the bottom of the hospital staff to serve a year in the time-honored tradition, racing to answer the flash of on-duty call lights and nubile nurses. But only the Fat Man... (more)
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  On Call: A Doctor's Days and Nights in Residency

  by Emily R. Transue

  On Call begins with a newly-minted doctor checking in for her first day of residency--wearing the long white coat of an MD and being called "Doctor" for the first time. Having studied at Yale and Dartmouth, Dr. Emily Transue arrives in Seattle to start her internship in Internal Medicine just after graduating from medical school. This series of loosely interconnected scenes from the author's medical training... (more)
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  Treatment Kind and Fair: Letters to a Young Doctor (Art of Mentoring)

  by Perri Klass

  New York Times contributor and beloved author Dr. Perri Klass offers a glimpse inside the doctor's office for aspiring physicians, medical buffs, and anyone who's ever been a patient. If you've ever gotten wrapped up in the arcana of "E.R." or "House," or been absorbed by a piece in The New Yorker by Gawande, Groopman, or Nuland, or sat on that exam table wondering what's really going on in your ... (more)