The Intern Blues: The Timeless Classic About the Making of a Doctor â A Year-Long Diary of AIDS, Child Abuse, and Medical Training

Marion, Robert

ISBN 10: 0060937092 / ISBN 13: 9780060937096

Published by William Morrow Paperbacks, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Intern Blues: The Timeless Classic About the Making of a Doctor â A Year-Long Diary of AIDS, Child Abuse, and Medical Training
• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060937092
• ISBN 13: 9780060937096
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

While supervising a small group of interns at a major New York medical center, Dr. Robert Marion asked three of them to keep a careful diary over the course of a year. Andy, Mark, and Amy vividly describe their real-life lessons in treating very sick children; confronting child abuse and the awful human impact of the AIDS epidemic; skirting the indifference of the hospital bureaucracy; and overcoming their own fears, insecurities, and constant fatigue. Their stories are harrowing and often funny; their personal triumph is unforgettable.

This updated edition of The Intern Blues includes a new preface from the author discussing the status of medical training in America today and a new afterword updating the reader on the lives of the three young interns who first shared their stories with readers more than a decade ago.

About the Author

Robert Marion, M.D., a professor of pediatrics and obstetrics and gyneclogy at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York, is the director of clinical genetics at both the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and Blythedale Children's Hospital, Valhalla, New York. He is the author of six published books, including The Intern Blues and Learning to Play God: The Coming of Age of a Young Doctor. He lives with his family in Westchester County, New York.