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The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly : A Physician's First Year (Paperback)

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The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly : A Physician's First Year (Paperback)
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from indygo88
An enjoyable and fairly down-to-earth account of a physician's first year internship at Columbia University Medical Center. Matt McCarthy was not a flawless medical student and was not afraid to say so in this memoir. Well written but easy to read, this only further reinforces the fact that I kno...

from pgchuis
I don't really know what to say about this memoir - it tells the story of Matt McCarthy's year as an intern at a New York hospital. He goes from being completely inexperienced to ready to teach the intake below him. He survives a scary needle stick injury. He ponders how to balance medical priori...

from PoetVictoria
This book was a real eye-opener! Dr. McCarthy lets us inside his head and inside the hospital with mixed emotions. On the one hand, he's made the doctor more human and less godlike. On the other hand, I'm probably going to have more feelings of anxiety next time I find myself in the hospital, or ...

from hammockqueen
This story was highly readable and mostly enjoyable. I did find myself hoping I would never need to be in a hospital being cared for by 1st year doctors. Matt assures us that he was always under the guidance of a wiser doctor, yet it all sounded pretty scary. His honest depiction of the student d...

from dschander
Mostly, I found this book terrifying. The author gives a chronological look at his internship year, the first year out of medical school. While medical school offers a lot of theory, it offers very little in the way of practical experience, which means that most of this book is filled with anxiet...
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