Becoming a Doctor

From Student to Specialist, Doctor-Writers Share Their Experiences

By: Lee Gutkind

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Paperback | 11 July 2011 | Edition Number 1

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From the godfather of creative nonfiction comes a fresh and poignant collection of essays from doctors who grapple with the personal, ethical, and emotional demands of healing others as they journey from student to resident and beyond. A range of distinguished physicians and therapists are featured here, including Kay Redfield Jamison, Abigail Zugar (NYT Science Section), Peter Cramer, Robert Coles, Lauren Slater, Sandeep Jauhar, and Perri Klass, among others. Becoming a Doctor doesn't just focus on one period of training but instead portrays the broad arc of a doctor's development, from a medical student's first traumatic encounter with a cadaver and her realization that the experience's redemption will lie ahead in lives saved, to a resident's search for aesthetic beauty during her grueling year in an inner-city hospital and an older doctor's profound ruminations on what it means to really listen to a patient's story.

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"Medical students and medical professionals will enjoy these perspectives on their profession; they will likely encounter or have encountered many of the obstacles narrated." -- Library Journal "It seems unjust that a person should be endowed with a mind that can craft beautiful sentences and master all the information needed to graduate from medical school. But that's the case with many of the physician writers in Becoming a Doctor." -- Rachel Saslow - Washington Post "[Gutkind] selects 19 men and women who bravely, often lyrically, demonstrate that they are 'ordinary people engaged in an extraordinary profession.'" -- Publishers Weekly "Here, some of the best-known names in medical writing are joined by powerful new voices to help elucidate the mysterious and grueling transformation from non-doctor to doctor. Readers will gain insight into both the exuberance and disillusionment of physicians-in-training. A remarkable collection." -- Christine Montross, M.D., author of Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab

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Non-Fiction Medicine Medicine in General Medical Profession Clinical & Internal Medicine Family & Health Relationships & Families: Advice & Issues Biographies & True Stories Biographies Science, Technology & Medicine Biographies

Introduction: Writing About Doctors	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Intern	p. 1
Pas de Deux	p. 9
First in My Class	p. 25
The Patient Narrative	p. 39
The Family Room	p. 51
On Not Becoming Doctor	p. 59
Magic Hands	p. 69
On Working with Cadavers	p. 79
Going to Abilene	p. 97
Sine Qua Non	p. 103
The Doctor in Middle Age	p. 111
A Doctor of None	p. 125
Good Intentions	p. 135
En Route	p. 143
A Fire, Deliberately Set	p. 153
Thirty Minutes Closer	p. 171
The Cleverest Doctor	p. 181
A Manner of Being	p. 197
Knock Knock	p. 203
Contributor Notes	p. 223
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Becoming a Doctor

From Student to Specialist, Doctor-Writers Share Their Experiences

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