Every Doctor and Patient Should Read this One…..My 5 star review....
Book Synopsis:
In medical school, Matt McCarthy dreamed of being a
different kind of doctor—the sort of mythical, unflappable physician who could
reach unreachable patients. But when a new admission to the critical care unit
almost died his first night on call, he found himself scrambling. Visions of
mastery quickly gave way to hopes of simply surviving hospital life, where
confidence was hard to come by and no amount of med school training could
dispel the terror of facing actual patients.
This funny, candid memoir of McCarthy’s intern year at a New
York hospital provides a scorchingly frank look at how doctors are made, taking
readers into patients’ rooms and doctors’ conferences to witness a physician's
journey from ineptitude to competence. McCarthy's one stroke of luck paired him
with a brilliant second-year adviser he called “Baio” (owing to his resemblance
to the Charles in Charge star), who proved to be a remarkable teacher with a
wicked sense of humor. McCarthy would learn even more from the people he cared
for, including a man named Benny, who was living in the hospital for months at
a time awaiting a heart transplant. But no teacher could help McCarthy when an
accident put his own health at risk, and showed him all too painfully the thin
line between doctor and patient.
The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly offers a window on to
hospital life that dispenses with sanctimony and self-seriousness while
emphasizing the black-comic paradox of becoming a doctor: How do you learn to
save lives in a job where there is no practice?
If you’ve ever
wondered why your physician lacks a good bedside manner, behaves as if he was
God, or is the most pleasant doctor you ever met, read this book and you’ll
soon find out why. Future doctors receive no training in medical school in how
to become a doctor. That sort of training comes after graduation from medical
school and is learned in on the job training. From the doctors that they work
with, train under, from the patients they tend to, these new doctors as interns
are molded into the doctor you see now. In the Real Doctor Will See You
Shortly, idealistic recent medical school graduate Dr. Matt McCarthy takes us
through his first year of his internship, his on-the-job training. During this
first year, he endured thirty hour shifts, and worked in every area of medicine
to help him determine what kind of medicine he will eventually practice. At one
point, he says it best, “Learning medicine was about being thrown into the
fire, learning on the fly….” Can you imagine saying awake for thirty hours
straight, full of donuts and coffee and be expected to make an accurate
diagnosis of a patient? Crazy huh? Unbelievable? Absolutely. These young
doctors have no clue on how to take blood, read X-rays or other elated tasks
until now, while they’re interns. “So many things go into being a doctor,” he
said. “connecting with patients, medical knowledge, performing procedures-on
any given day you can consider yourself a failure at one of them. Or all of
them. You can beat yourself up to the point that you’re ready to quit. But on
the other hand…at any moment you can look around and say, ‘I’m better than that
guy. I’m a better doctor that her.”
Told through his
eager, enthusiastic eyes with humor, his book is harrowing, uplifting, scary
and hilarious. This book covers everything you ever wanted to know about what
it takes in becoming a doctor. Whether you’re interested in becoming a doctor,
or wish to know what training your doctor had that made him/her a good or bad
doctor, this is the book to read. In fact, I’d like to hand out a copy to every
patient in order to tell them that their doctor isn’t God. Like us he/she is
just a human and they can’t perform miracles. I’d also like to give every
doctor a copy in order to remind them of the same. This was an excellent,
informative and enjoyable read and I highly recommend it.
About the Author:
MATT MCCARTHY is an assistant professor of medicine at
Cornell and a staff physician at Weill Cornell Medical Center. His work has
appeared in Sports Illustrated, Slate, The New England Journal of Medicine, and
Deadspin, where he writes the Medspin column. His first book, Odd Man Out, was
a New York Times bestseller.
Disclaimer: I received this book from Blogging For Books in exchanged for a fair and honest review.
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