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Also by Sandeep Jauhar:

Intern, January 2008
Hardcover

Intern
Sandeep Jauhar

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
January 2008
On Sale: December 26, 2007
320 pages
ISBN: 0374146594
EAN: 9780374146597
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction

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.

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Re: Intern

I like to read true medical stories about both doctors and patients experiences, so this is definately going to my TR list.
(Kelly Holt 1:25pm February 26, 2010)