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<p><P><i>Intern </i>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&#151;and especially the first year, called internship&#151;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.<P>Jauhar's internship was even more harrowing than most&#58; he switched from physics to medicine in order to follow a more humane calling&#151;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 <i>The New York Times</i>, attracting the suspicions of the medical bureaucracy. Then, suddenly stricken, he became a patient himself&#151;and came to see that today's high-tech, high-pressure medicine can be a humane science after all.<P>Now a thriving cardiologist, Jauhar has all the qualities you'd want in your own doctor&#58; expertise, insight, a feel for the human factor, a sense of humor, and a keen awareness of the

Author

Jauhar, Sandeep, 1968-

Publisher

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781429939539

Subjects

Medical, Memoir, Biography

Rating

3.68 / 5 (129 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14