Intern: a doctor’s initiation by Sandeep Jauhar
After finishing reading another doctor’s memoir and feeling unsatisfied, I read this book again, as I wanted to know why I felt good about this book about 10 years ago. Until now, I’ve read several books in the form of personal stories by doctors. A few of them are quite well-written and remain precious to me, whereas most books by doctors are superficial or shallow to me, and I usually find nothing in such books. Different from such books, this book ‘Intern’ is one of my favorite books among personal stories written by doctors. The author, an Indian-American, entered medical school after getting a Ph.D. in physics. This book contains how he became to accept a medical doctor as his job in the long years of refusal and skepticism. Many pages of this book are about an internship, the first year of residency training. He vividly portrayed mental anguish and physically unbearable hardship experienced as an intern, and I could not help but sympathize with him. He also described real...