Intern: A Doctor's Initiation

Intern: A Doctor's Initiation

<b>"In Jauhar's wise memoir of his two-year ordeal of doubt and sleep deprivation at a New York hospital, he takes readers to the heart of every young physician's hardest test: to become a doctor yet remain a human being."</b> <b>€• <i>Time</i></b><br /><i></i><br /><i>Intern </i>is Dr. 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 his every assumption about medical care today.<br /><br />Residency€•and especially its first year, the internship€•is legendary for its brutality, and Jauhar's experience was even more harrowing than most. He switched from physics to medicine in order to follow a more humane calling€•only to find that his new profession often had little regard for patients' concerns. 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€•and came to see that today's high-tech, high-pressure medicine can be a humane science after all. <br /><br />Jauhar's beautifully written memoir explains the inner workings of modern medicine with rare candor and insight.