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True stories of transitioning from medical school classrooms to the realities of the hospital: "Moving, eloquent, and often unforgettable" (Atul Gawande, MD). After years of practice, doctors can sometimes seem aloof, uncaring, and hurried. What goes on in their minds? Were they always like that, or has their work changed them? And how do some physicians manage to retain their warmth and humanity over the course of a long career? This "thoughtful and illuminating" book takes us into the day-to-day lives of third-year medical students at an Ivy League school—just starting out in their profession and dealing with patients face-to-face for the first time (Publishers Weekly). In their own words, more than forty of them reveal what it's really like to enter this field, having their principles of scientific rigor and idealism tested as they cope with real people and real crises in real time. This doctor's-eye view of the...Pages of The Soul of a Doctor :
