The Intern Doctor S Initiation

Author : Sandeep Jauhar
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429939539

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Intern by Sandeep Jauhar Pdf

Intern is Sandeep Jauhar's story of his days and nights in residency at a busy hospital in New York City, a trial that led him to question our every assumption about medical care today. Residency—and especially the first year, called internship—is legendary for its brutality. Working eighty hours or more per week, most new doctors spend their first year asking themselves why they wanted to be doctors in the first place. Jauhar's internship was even more harrowing than most: he switched from physics to medicine in order to follow a more humane calling—only to find that medicine put patients' concerns last. He struggled to find a place among squadrons of cocky residents and doctors. He challenged the practices of the internship in The New York Times, attracting the suspicions of the medical bureaucracy. Then, suddenly stricken, he became a patient himself—and came to see that today's high-tech, high-pressure medicine can be a humane science after all. Now a thriving cardiologist, Jauhar has all the qualities you'd want in your own doctor: expertise, insight, a feel for the human factor, a sense of humor, and a keen awareness of the worries that we all have in common. His beautifully written memoir explains the inner workings of modern medicine with rare candor and insight.

Author : Sandeep Jauhar
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0143063820

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The Intern:Doctor's Initiation by Sandeep Jauhar Pdf

&Lsquo;I Was An Intern A Decade Ago Now, But I Still Remember It The Way Soldiers Remember War.&Rsquo; Intern Is Sandeep Jauhar&Rsquo;S Story Of His Days And Nights In Residency At A Busy Hospital In New York City, A Trial That Led Him To Question Every Assumption About Medical Care Today. Residency&Mdash;And Especially The First Year, Called Internship&Mdash;Is Legendary For Its Brutality. Working Eighty Hours Or More Per Week, Most New Doctors Spend Their First Year Asking Themselves Why They Wanted To Be Doctors In The First Place. &Nbsp; Jauhar&Rsquo;S Internship Was Even More Harrowing Than Most: He Switched From Physics To Medicine In Order To Follow A More Humane Calling&Mdash;Only To Find That Medicine Put Patients&Rsquo; Concerns Last. He Struggled To Find A Place Among Squadrons Of Cocky Residents And Doctors. He Challenged The Practices Of The Internship In The New York Times, Attracting The Suspicions Of The Medical Bureaucracy. Then, Suddenly Stricken, He Became A Patient Himself&Mdash;And Came To See That Today&Rsquo;S High-Tech, High-Pressure Medicine Can Be A Humane Science After All. Now A Thriving Cardiologist, Jauhar Has All The Qualities You&Rsquo;D Want In Your Own Doctor: Expertise, Insight, A Feel For The Human Factor, A Sense Of Humor, And A Keen Awareness Of The Worries That We All Have In Common. His Beautifully Written Memoir Explains The Inner Workings Of Modern Medicine With Rare Candor And Insight. Reviews &Lsquo;A Sensitive, Thoughtful Observer And An Experienced, Gifted Writer . . . It Will Be The Standard By Which Future Such Memoirs Will Be Judged&Rsquo; &Mdash;Abraham Verghese, Author Of My Own Country &Lsquo;In A Voice Of Profound Honesty And Intelligence, Sandeep Jauhar Gives Us An Insider&Rsquo;S Look At The Medical Profession, And Also A Dramatic Account Of The Psychological Challenges Of Early Adulthood&Rsquo; &Mdash;Akhil Sharma, Author Of An Obedient Father

Author : Sandeep Jauhar
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0374535337

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Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician by Sandeep Jauhar Pdf

In his acclaimed memoir Intern, Sandeep Jauhar chronicled the formative years of his residency at a prestigious New York City hospital. Doctored, his harrowing follow-up, observes the crisis of American medicine through the eyes of an attending cardiologist. Hoping for the stability he needs to start a family, Jauhar accepts a position at a massive teaching hospital on the outskirts of Queens. With a decade's worth of elite medical training behind him, he is eager to settle down and reap the rewards of countless sleepless nights. Instead, he is confronted with sobering truths. Doctors' morale is low and getting lower. Blatant cronyism determines patient referrals, corporate ties distort medical decisions, and unnecessary tests are routinely performed in order to generate income. Meanwhile, a single patient in Jauhar's hospital might see fifteen specialists in one stay and still fail to receive a full picture of his actual condition. Provoked by his unsettling experiences, Jauhar has written an introspective memoir that is also an impassioned plea for reform. With American medicine at a crossroads, Doctored is the important work of a writer unafraid to challenge the establishment and incite controversy.

Author : Shane Bullock,Elizabeth Manias
Publisher : Pearson Higher Education AU
Page : 1249 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781442564411

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Fundamentals of Pharmacology by Shane Bullock,Elizabeth Manias Pdf

Fundamentals of Pharmacology 7e presents key scientific and clinical principles to facilitate a greater understanding of pharmacology. This wholly Australasian text provides comprehensive and current coverage of topics, written in a clear style with a reader-friendly full colour design.

Author : Lilian R. Furst
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Medicine in literature
ISBN : 0813917557

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Between Doctors and Patients by Lilian R. Furst Pdf

Although there are many books on the mechanics of doctor-patient interaction, none has previously confronted the philosophical and psychological issues of power and trust that bind these figures. One consequence of their changed relationship, Furst asserts, has been the decrease of interest in patients as individuals. In this time of impersonal HMOs and spiraling health-care costs, she hopes that doctors and patients can learn from the past and eventually find a mutually beneficial balance of power that will see medicine as both a science and an art and will recognize human understanding as an integral element of healing.

Author : Tania M. Jenkins
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231548298

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Doctors' Orders by Tania M. Jenkins Pdf

The United States does not have enough doctors. Every year since the 1950s, internationally trained and osteopathic medical graduates have been needed to fill residency positions because there are too few American-trained MDs. However, these international and osteopathic graduates have to significantly outperform their American MD counterparts to have the same likelihood of getting a residency position. And when they do, they often end up in lower-prestige training programs, while American-trained MDs tend to occupy elite training positions. Some programs are even fully segregated, accepting exclusively U.S. medical graduates or non-U.S. medical graduates, depending on the program’s prestige. How do international and osteopathic medical graduates end up so marginalized, and what allows U.S.-trained MDs to remain elite? Doctors’ Orders offers a groundbreaking examination of the construction and consequences of status distinctions between physicians before, during, and after residency training. Tania M. Jenkins spent years observing and interviewing American, international, and osteopathic medical residents in two hospitals to reveal the unspoken mechanisms that are taken for granted and that lead to hierarchies among supposed equals. She finds that the United States does not need formal policies to prioritize American-trained MDs. By relying on a system of informal beliefs and practices that equate status with merit and eclipse structural disadvantages, the profession convinces international and osteopathic graduates to participate in a system that subordinates them to American-trained MDs. Offering a rare ethnographic look at the inner workings of an elite profession, Doctors’ Orders sheds new light on the formation of informal status hierarchies and their significance for both doctors and patients.

Author : Samuel Shem
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984805379

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Man's 4th Best Hospital by Samuel Shem Pdf

The sequel to the bestselling and highly acclaimed The House of God Years after the events of The House of God, the Fat Man has been given leadership over a new Future of Medicine Clinic at what is now only Man's 4th Best Hospital, and has persuaded Dr. Roy Basch and some of his intern cohorts to join him to teach a new generation of interns and residents. In a medical landscape dominated by computer screens and corrupted by money, they have one goal: to make medicine humane again. What follows is a mesmerizing, heartbreaking, and hilarious exploration of how the health-care industry, and especially doctors, have evolved over the past thirty years.

Author : Charles Despres
Publisher : Academic Conferences Limited
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-10
Category : Corporate governance
ISBN : 9781908272171

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Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Management Leadership and Governance by Charles Despres Pdf

Author : Danielle Ofri
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780807073339

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What Doctors Feel by Danielle Ofri Pdf

A look at the emotional side of medicine—the shame, fear, anger, anxiety, empathy, and even love that affect patient care Physicians are assumed to be objective, rational beings, easily able to detach as they guide patients and families through some of life’s most challenging moments. But doctors’ emotional responses to the life-and-death dramas of everyday practice have a profound impact on medical care. And while much has been written about the minds and methods of the medical professionals who save our lives, precious little has been said about their emotions. In What Doctors Feel, Dr. Danielle Ofri has taken on the task of dissecting the hidden emotional responses of doctors, and how these directly influence patients. How do the stresses of medical life—from paperwork to grueling hours to lawsuits to facing death—affect the medical care that doctors can offer their patients? Digging deep into the lives of doctors, Ofri examines the daunting range of emotions—shame, anger, empathy, frustration, hope, pride, occasionally despair, and sometimes even love—that permeate the contemporary doctor-patient connection. Drawing on scientific studies, including some surprising research, Dr. Danielle Ofri offers up an unflinching look at the impact of emotions on health care. With her renowned eye for dramatic detail, Dr. Ofri takes us into the swirling heart of patient care, telling stories of caregivers caught up and occasionally torn down by the whirlwind life of doctoring. She admits to the humiliation of an error that nearly killed one of her patients and her forever fear of making another. She mourns when a beloved patient is denied a heart transplant. She tells the riveting stories of an intern traumatized when she is forced to let a newborn die in her arms, and of a doctor whose daily glass of wine to handle the frustrations of the ER escalates into a destructive addiction. But doctors don’t only feel fear, grief, and frustration. Ofri also reveals that doctors tell bad jokes about “toxic sock syndrome,” cope through gallows humor, find hope in impossible situations, and surrender to ecstatic happiness when they triumph over illness. The stories here reveal the undeniable truth that emotions have a distinct effect on how doctors care for their patients. For both clinicians and patients, understanding what doctors feel can make all the difference in giving and getting the best medical care.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Americans
ISBN : MINN:30000011072281

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The American as International Traveler and Host by Anonim Pdf

Author : Phyllis Irwin M. D.,Phyllis Irwin
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781452025391

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Dr. Memsaab by Phyllis Irwin M. D.,Phyllis Irwin Pdf

Travel a mountain road to a village for a medical clinic, trek along the Indus to visit a former patient, visit a Princess to do a pre-natal check, or watch as very sick patients are brought in to the hospital by local "ambulance", a roped frame bed carried on the shoulders of four men. These stories and many more are related in Doctor Memsaab, as the author draws from diaries, old letters, and memories the story of her life as a medical missionary in the foothills of the Himalayas. She was also a wife and a mother of three active youngsters. The reader gets a glimpse of how she managed these roles as she tells how she and her husband made time for family life with a simple picnic or playing games, and by including the children in the ministry when possible. Whether treating a poor villager or the wealthy elite, the desire was not only to heal physically, but also to treat spiritual needs by demonstrating the compassion and love of Christ, and whenever feasible, presenting the Gospel of salvation through Jesus.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Hospitals
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1250 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Veterans
ISBN : LOC:00176565342

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Veterans' Administration Medical Program by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Hospitals Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1662 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015081888516

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Hearings by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2182 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:35112104242047

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Hearings by United States. Congress. House Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Health
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Human experimentation in medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015046738384

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Quality of Health Care--human Experimentation, 1973: S.2071 S.2072 H.R.7724 Apr. 30 June 28 to 29 July 10 1973 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Health Pdf