Intern: A Doctor's Initiation

By Sandeep Jauhar

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374146594
• ISBN13: 9780374146597
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.9" x 1.3" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

Great book on Residency Years

Its a great book about residency years of every doctor. It tells about their constant struggle to cope with present health care system. Author tried to give his honest encounter of most of the things. I highly recommend this book for any one who is going into medicine or spouses of medical professionals.

Brilliant, honest account of internship

Intern This book is a brilliant, honest and touching memoir of one man's journey through his medical internship at New York Hospital. I could not put it down. I had no idea how grueling the process was. He has shared intimate details of his daily life on the wards, the stresses as well as the rewards. Yes, I give it as many stars as there are in the sky! DWD

Couldn't put the book down.

As a physician, I don't have much time to read a book for leisure, but I couldn't put this book down. You don't have to be in the medical profession, or have gone through internship to appreciate this book, but it definitely brought back memories from my own training. I wish I had kept a journal during my internship and residency. Will this book be our generation's version of House Of God?- I'm not sure, but one thing is for sure, it is a great read, well written, and a lot better than the sweater I got for christmas!