By Sandeep Jauhar

‘I was an intern a decade ago now, but I still remember it the way soldiers remember war.’
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 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.

Published Date: 11/04/2008 Format: PaperBack ISBN: 978-0-14-306382-7 Publisher: Penguin India No of Pages: 299 Rating: Retail price: Indian Rs. 350.00 (Rs. 700.00) Our price: Rs. 695.00 You Save: Rs. 5.00 Reviews: 0 reivew(s).

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