The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (880 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0804138672 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Real Resident Will Entertain You! As I plan to return to school for my premed prerequisites at the "advanced age" of 50, I love reading real-life accounts of med school and residency. This was my favorite thus far. I couldn't put the book down! Raw and unflinching, I felt like he was taking me along with him. I love that he shared his real doubts and struggles as well as his growth as a physician. I've seen complaints about the languag. Amazon Customer said Excellent!. Really enjoyed reading this book. It gave me great insight into what it takes to become a doctor. I did not have a clue. We tend to make doctors out to be super human, but in the end they are just normal people who work hard to perfect their craft.. Three Stars Humorous at times and even insightful on occasion, but over all a bit repetitious in spots.
McCarthy's one stroke of luck paired him with a brilliant second-year adviser he called “Baio” (owing to his resemblance to the Charles in Charge star), who proved to be a remarkable teacher with a wicked sense of humor. But no teacher could help McCarthy when an accident put his own health at risk, and showed him all too painfully the thin line between doctor and patient.The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly offers a window on to hospital life that dispenses with sanctimony and self-seriousness while emphasizing the black-comic paradox of becoming a doctor: How do you learn to save lives in a j
A marvelous book.” —Michael Collins, author of Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs “I’m no doctor—but I am writer—and what I appreciated most about Matt McCarthy’s book is the humor and the humanity on every page. Matt’s column, I know why tennis players grunt, and why five-finger shoes are for morons, and why I should have gotten a vasectomy during March Madness. And thanks to this book, I now know how he became the kind of doctor that I feel comfortable going to with stupid drunken questions.” —Drew Magary, author of The Postmortal and Someone Could Get Hurt<
His first book, Odd Man Out, was a New York Times bestseller.. MATT MCCARTHY is an assistant professor of medicine at Cornell and a staff physician at Weill Cornell Medical Center. His work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, Slate, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Deadspin, where he writes the Medspin column