Intern: A Doctor's Initiation | 
 enlarge | Author: Sandeep Jauhar
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Category: Book
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Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 31720
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.5
ISBN: 0374146594
Dewey Decimal Number: 610.92
EAN: 9780374146597
ASIN: 0374146594
Publication Date: December 26, 2007
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DIVIIntern /Iis Sandeep Jauhar#8217;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#8212;and especially the first year, called internship#8212;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.BRBRJauhar#8217;s internship was even more harrowing than most: he switched from physics to medicine in order to follow a more humane calling#8212;only to find that medicine put patients#8217; concerns last. He struggled to find a place among squadrons of cocky residents and doctors. He challenged the practices of the internship in IThe New York Times/I, attracting the suspicions of the medical bureaucracy. Then, suddenly stricken, he became a patient himself#8212;and came to see that today#8217;s high-tech, high-pressure medicine can be a humane science after all.BRBRNow a thriving cardiologist, Jauhar has all the qualities you#8217;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./DIV
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 realistic book November 27, 2008
Stent Doctor (new york)
This is one of the best books I have read on a persons experience in medical training
Best book I've read about medicine November 24, 2008
Jennifer Marin
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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!
 Don't buy - Reverse Discrimination November 24, 2008
Happy Citizen (Las Vegas, NV USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!!! October 22, 2008
NYCNP (NYC)
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
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?
 Deceptively Interesting August 18, 2008
D. Attarzadeh (Baltimore, MD)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I found this work by Sandeep Jauhar to be quite in insightful description of what the world of internship actually entails. What I find brilliantly done is the keen use of language to constantly push forward a sense of dismissal of patients, yet a odd desire to continue. Throughout the course of this work, Jauhar is incredibly hesitant of the idea of medicine in the first place, yet reluctantly decides to push forward over all odds. There are times when you not only know, but feel, as though Jauhar doesn't want to be in the hospital, don't want to talk to patients, doesn't want anything to do with medicine in the first place. I suppose that's the impact of working in a hospital for more than 24 hours at a time. Occasionally I would find myself reproaching Jauhar for his standoffish manner, which is somewhat of a theme of this novel. It seems as though he occasionally doesn't care for patients, but just wants to get the job done and go home. But then I realized that part of what Jauhar is trying to get across is a taste of what a life as a doctor entails. I had assumed there would be some nights where sleep might be hard to come by, but I never thought it was as intense as is portrayed here. I commend Jauhar for a well-written description and await his future works.
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