PLAYING DOCTOR - Part One: Medical School: Stumbling through with amnesia

John Lawrence

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Language: English

Published by R. R. Bowker, 2020

1735507210 / 9781735507217

Series: Book 1 of 3 - Playing Doctor

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I showed up for my first day of medical school limping, confused, swathed in bloody gauze, armed with a liberal arts education, and to really set myself apart from the over-achieving pack of future doctors, lacking short-term memory. (PLAYING DOCTOR - Part One: Medical School)John's medical memoir was born from chaotic, disjointed, funny and frightening late-night letters to friends over email (any recipients of which all those years ago will likely walk away now). Those manic blogs from the hospital wards during under-slept call nights (which left a few friends wondering if he had invaded the hospital pharmacy) were the genesis for this book, Playing Doctor. This is a journey through medical training as interpreted by someone who told their college career advisor that the only thing they did not want to be was a doctor-not that medical schools want you believing their training was interpretive, like a modern dance company's version of Grey's Anatomy-and started school with a traumatic brain injury. This entertaining, heartfelt demystification of medical school via the confusion and chaos that seemed to litter John's medical trail, takes readers along the studies and clinical wards that miraculously teach students how to care for patients. The follow up books cover residency.…

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Title
PLAYING DOCTOR - Part One: Medical School: Stumbling through with amnesia
Author
John Lawrence
Publisher
R. R. Bowker
Publication year
2020
Condition
Very Good
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
1735507210
ISBN 13
9781735507217
Series
Book 1 of 3: Playing Doctor

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