Match day
Subtitle: one day and one dramatic year in the lives of three new doctors
By: Brian Eule.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780312377847
Subjects: Interns (Medicine); Women physicians; Internship and Residency -- Personal Narratives; Physicians, Women -- Personal Narratives
Genres: Personal Narratives.
Description: Each year, on the third Thursday in March, more than 15,000 graduating medical students exult, despair, and endure Match Day: the decision of a controversial computer algorithm, which matches students with hospital residencies in every field of medicine. The match determines where each graduate will be assigned the crucial first job as an intern, and shapes the rest of his--or, in increasing number, her--life. In Match Day, Brian Eule follows three women from the anxious months before the match through the completion of their first year of internship. Each woman makes mistakes, saves lives, and witnesses death; each must keep or jettison the man in her life; each comes to learn what it means to heal, to comfort, to lose, and to grieve, while maintaining a professional demeanor.--From publisher description.