A cardiologist offers an account of his internship and residency at a busy New York City hospital, detailing the brutal hours in a medical establishment that seems to place patients' concerns last, as well as his own experiences on the other side as a patient himself.
Intern is Dr. Sandeep Jauhars 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. Residencyand especially its first year, the internshipis legendary for its brutality, and Jauhars experience was even more harrowing than most. He switched from physics to medicine in order to follow a more humane callingonly 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 The New York Times, attracting the suspicions of the medical bureaucracy. Then, suddenly stricken, he became a patient himselfand came to see that todays high-tech, high-pressure medicine can be a humane science after all.
Jauhars beautifully written memoir explains the inner workings of modern medicine with rare candor and insight.
