The Soul of a Doctor: Harvard Medical Students Face Life and Death (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781565125070)

By the time most of us meet our doctors, they've been in practice for a number of years. Often they seem aloof, uncaring, and hurried. Of course, they're not all like that, and most didn't start out that way.

Here are voices of third-year students just as they begin to take on clinical responsibilities. Their words focus on the odd transition students face when they must deal with real people in real time and in real crises and when they must learn to put aside their emotions to make quick, accurate, and sensitive decisions. Their decisions aren't always right, and the consequences can be life-altering--for all involved. Moving, disturbing, and candid, their true stories show us a side of the profession that few ever see, or could even imagine. They show, often painfully, how medical students grow up, right at the bedside.

Author: Susan Pories, Sachin H. Jain, Gordon Harper
ISBN-10: 156512507X
ISBN-13: 9781565125070
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Language: English
Published: 06/02/2006
Pages: 236
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.84h x 5.68w x 0.76d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/27/2006 pg. 66
Library Journal 04/15/2006 pg. 100
Booklist 05/01/2006 pg. 60
School Library Journal 07/01/2006 pg. 135
Foreword 07/01/2006 pg. 39