“…Ellen Rothman offers a vivid account of her four years at one of the best medical schools in the country, and opens the infamously closed door between patient and doctor. White Coat: Becoming a Doctor at Harvard Medical School by Ellen Rothman.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.” He challenged the practices of the internship in The New York Times, attracting the suspicions of the medical bureaucracy. He struggled to find a place among squadrons of cocky residents and doctors. He switched from physics to medicine in order to follow a more humane calling―only to find that his new profession often had little regard for patients’ concerns. “Residency―and especially its first year, the internship―is legendary for its brutality, and Jauhar’s experience was even more harrowing than most. Intern: A Doctor’s Initiation by Sandeep Jauhar.This phenomenal New York Times bestseller tells a riveting story of the collision between ethics, race, and medicine of scientific discovery and faith healing and of a daughter consumed with questions about the mother she never knew.” She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells-taken without her knowledge in 1951-became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, and more. Henrietta’s cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains virtually unknown, and her family can’t afford health insurance. “Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Read the book instead of seeing the movie. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot.
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With appreciation for the human elements and the science, Groopman explains how to distinguish true hope from false hope–and how to gain an honest understanding of the reach and limits of this essential emotion.” “This profound exploration begins when Groopman was a medical student, ignorant of the vital role of hope in patients’ lives–and it culminates in his remarkable quest to delineate a biology of hope. The first time I read this, I kept it in my bag for months, carrying it around with me. The Anatomy of Hope by Jerome Groopman.Their stories are harrowing and often funny their personal triumph is unforgettable.” Andy, Mark, and Amy vividly describe their real-life lessons in treating very sick children confronting child abuse and the awful human impact of the AIDS epidemic skirting the indifference of the hospital bureaucracy and overcoming their own fears, insecurities, and constant fatigue. Robert Marion asked three of them to keep a careful diary over the course of a year. “While supervising a small group of interns at a major New York medical center, Dr. It should be required reading for anyone considering a career in medicine. One of the truest books on medicine I’ve ever read. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated.” One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. “At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer.
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