Title: Becoming a doctor : a journey of initiation in medical school /
Authors: Konner, Melvin.
Publisher: Viking,
Year: 1987
Subjects: Konner, Melvin.; Medicine; Education, Medical; Medical students United States Biography.; United States
Abstract: An account of what happened as the author and his fellow students lived through the crises of their first clinical hospital work and started to become doctors.
Contents: Introduction : a compensatory pause -- Basic clinical skills : the first encounters -- Emergency ward surgery : no man's land -- Anesthesiology : the technicians of sleep -- Ward surgery : crossing the boundary -- Neurosurgery and neurology : lesions of the soul -- Psychiatry : the mind-body problem -- Pediatrics : suffer the children -- Obstetrics : the anatomical volcano -- Gynecology : the machinery of creation -- Pathology : the aspect of death -- Medicine I : a failure of the heart -- Medicine II : deathwatches -- Medicine III : healing and hope -- The fourth year : highlights and heroes -- Conclusion : healing artisans -- A glossary of house officer slang.