Becoming a Doctor: From Student to Specialist, Doctor-Writers Share Their Experiences

As wise as it is well written. . . . A sustaining work of art. Linda Elisabeth Beattie, Courier-Journal In this inspired anthology, doctors relate true stories from their professional lives, capturing disillusionments and triumphs encountered along the way. Essays by such distinguished writers as Peter D. Kramer, Kay Redfield Jamison, Danielle Ofri, Robert Coles, Lauren Slater, Sandeep Jauhar, and Perri Klass create a vivid mural of the medical world, from a students uneasy first encounter with a cadaver to a veteran doctors memories of the emotionally charged days and nights of residency.

Additional ISBNs: 9780393334555, 0393334554, 9780393076752, 039307675X