Intern: A Doctor's Initiation

Wow awesome book! I re-lived my own internship all over again. Got to round with Dr Jauhar in the icu and the medical floors, at morning report, at attending rounds..felt like i was on the hot seat again getting pimped. So relatable on so many levels for those who went thru the R1 year. The cases he describes too brought so much humanity to the bedside, all the while trying to learn what only can be learned by doing (see one, do one, teach one?). The ward teams, nurses, hospital politics, uncertainty, sleepless nights, the do first, ask questions later of intern survivorship..its all there. And i even enjoyed the different hospitals and cities he took us to throughout the book. At Cal berkeley, where Dr Jauhar finished a PhD in physics prior to his medical internship, i found myself driving around telegraph hill and up and around the campus towards the Lawrence Berkeley labs and down past international house just to get a feel for what he was leaving behind. I read up on New York presbyterian , Memorial Sloan, and Bellevue where he worked at. And in the later chapters of the book "walked" up from the Bellevue campus towards the upper east side retracing his thoughts and reflections after internship, and mine as well. Just a great read and tour de force of all that is experienced in the training of a new doctor.

This book as title suggests is about life of an intern in the U.S.the author is pretty honest and gives in depth view of his life as an intern.if u would like to have an idea of how intership is before u reach urs,u would like this.it does have many useful infos...

Ich kann dieses Buch alleine wegen der schriftstellerischen Leistung nur empfehlen. Der Titel ist leicht verfehlt, da es nicht nur um die Internship, sondern allgemein um die Lebensphase des jungen Arztes geht. Trotzdem lesenswert.

I found this book to be interesting and well written. I was surprised by the unflattering portrait the author portrayed of himself and his family. Overall, a good read for anyone interested in what intern year is really like in a New York hospital, if you can bear Jauhar's self-deprecating admixed with pompous prose.

A must read for all Doctors & Interns... Little confused as is Internship in Abroad as heavy as India looking at Doctor : Population ratio there...reading after sometime feels hypothetical and somewhat exaggerated...