Learning How the Heart Beats: The Making of a Pediatrician

by Claire McCarthy

Book Overview

A dramatic, emotion-filled look into the training and life of a dedicated doctor. Here are riveting accounts of Claire McCarthy's experiences at Harvard Medical School and at Boston's famous... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140231560
• ISBN13: 9780140231564
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

I appreciated her honesty

In this book, Dr. McCarthy has allowed her readers to look into her life as a pediatrician and learn from her successes and failures. I appreciated the balanced opinions she gave concerning both med school and her profession, and the decisions she has made throughout her journey. Overall, this is a good book to read if you are interested in medicine as a career.

Wow, I'm the First?

I'm shocked no one has yet written their thoughts on this book, I was looking foward to reading them! I loved this book. Since I'm a pre-med major I figured I would like it when I started it, but I did not expect that I would be unable to put it down! It sucked me in from the frst page and I just could not put it down! I was reading it during my physics class, that's how much I loved it. The author really shows the humanity behind medicine and does an excellent job of recounting her experiences "becoming a pediatrician". Every account of every patient fascinated me, and made me even more convinced that I'm not just insane for being pre-med. This book really gave me something to look foward to. If you are interested in health sciences, I strongly encourage you to read this book, it's wonderful!