Becoming a Doctor: A Journey of Initiation in Medical School

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Penguin Books, 1988 - Biography & Autobiography - 390 pages
Dr. Konner takes readers through his third year at medical school, where he wonders why teachers instill in their students a sense of power, but no sense of concern. Controversial, insightful, well-written, and deeply moving.

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Contents

INTRODUCTION A Compensatory Pause
1
BASIC CLINICAL SKILLS The First Encounters
23
EMERGENCY WARD SURGERY No Mans Land
41
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Melvin Konner, Ph.D., M.D., the author of nine books, is a Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology at Emory University in Atlanta, where he teaches in the anthropology, human biology, and Jewish studies programs. He has written for The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, Science, and the New England Journal of Medicine.

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