A Year-Long Night: Tales of a Medical Internship

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Summary: Brilliant Account of a First-Year Medical Internship
Review: Dr. Robert Klitzman writes with passion and insight about the particular rewards and frustrations associated with the process of becoming a physician. With profound sensitivity, he articulates the challenges of learning how to heal not only the body but the soul. He is a writer of dimension, heart and integrity. A writer to remember.

Rating:
Summary: Brilliant Account of a First-Year Medical Internship
Review: This story of the author's year as an intern comes across as a monotonous recitation of events with little insight into the author himself. We learn that he learned a lot, likes to criticize nurses, and apparently made no mistakes in his intern year.
Strangely, the book comes alive in the 20-page epilogue, in which the author narrates his pre-med school work in the remote areas of Papua New Guinea studying kuru. The author opens up his feelings and experiences with a fascinating story of the contrast between the cultures and medical practices, and kuru itself. If you come across this book, skip the first 222 pages and read the epilogue....

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Summary: unfeeling
Review: This story of the author's year as an intern comes across as a monotonous recitation of events with little insight into the author himself. We learn that he learned a lot, likes to criticize nurses, and apparently made no mistakes in his intern year.
Strangely, the book comes alive in the 20-page epilogue, in which the author narrates his pre-med school work in the remote areas of Papua New Guinea studying kuru. The author opens up his feelings and experiences with a fascinating story of the contrast between the cultures and medical practices, and kuru itself. If you come across this book, skip the first 222 pages and read the epilogue....