Reviews BookĮxcerpts Media About the Author Reviews Praise for Intern His memoir explains the inner workings of modern medicine with rare candor and insight. Now a cardiologist, Jauhar has all the qualities you'd want in your own doctor: expertise, insight, compassion, a sense of humor, and a keen awareness of the worries that we all have in common. Then, suddenly stricken, he became a patient himself-and came to see that today's high-tech, high-pressure medicine can be a humane science after all. He challenged the practices of the internship in The New York Times, attracting the suspicions of the medical bureaucracy. He struggled to find a place among squadrons of cocky residents and doctors. Jauhar's internship was even more harrowing than most: he switched from physics to medicine in order to follow a more humane calling-only to find that his new profession often had little regard for patient's concerns. Working eighty hours or more per week, most new doctors spend their first year asking themselves why they wanted to be doctors in the first place. Residency-especially the first year, called internship-is legendary for its brutality. Intern is Sandeep Jauhar's story of his residency at a busy hospital in New York City, a trial that led him to question every common assumption about medical care today. Media Issues, Communication & Journalism.Computer Science & Information Technology.
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