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Learning to Play God Author: Do you know what your doctor really thinks or how your doctor really feels about medicine and about you? The seeds lie in the critical first few years of a medical education, and Dr. Robert Marion, director of the Center for Congenital Disorders at the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, draws from his own experiences as student, intern, and... more »
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Nonfiction account of a young doctor's intern and residency years. There's not much new and different about the cases he covers, but what lifts this book above the run-of-the-mill medical story is Marion's insistence that modern medical training, with its 36-hour working shifts, indifferent superiors, and virtually non-existent emotional support from supposed mentors, destroys the careers of some would-be doctors and churns out mostly successful automatons.
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I loved this book. It will capture the attention of anyone interested in or thinking of a career in the medical field. Engrossing!
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