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Overview"""Fascinating... Klass writes with wit, intelligence, and a great deal of insight.""—The New York Times Book Review Acclaimed pediatrician, journalist, and novelist Perri Klass offers a provocative look at the ups and downs of medical school from those first exams to the day she became a doctor. In a direct, candid style, Klass shares what it is like to be a first-time mother while attending med school; the unique lingo of the med student; how to deal with every bodily fluid imaginable; and the humor and heartbreak of working with patients. With this collection of essays, Klass established herself as a go-to voice for a generation of med students and doctors, with her frank and witty perspective. Klass also brings a proven ability to make the medical world accessible to the lay reader, through her extensive literary and journalistic experience." Full Product DetailsPublisher: Penguin Putnam IncImprint: Plume ISBN: 9780452272583ISBN 10: 0452272580 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 01 July 1994 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Introduction THE PRE-CLINICAL YEARS The Living-in-Sin Potluck and Other Tales of the First Year of Medical School A Textbook Pregnancy THE CLINICAL YEARS The First Time Crying in the Hospital Camels, Zebras, and Fascinomas Learning the Language Macho Tempos The Scrubbed and the Unscrubbed Emergency Room Babytalk Invasions 007s Enough to Make You Sick The Prize in the Cracker Jack Box Stress and Potato Chips Ignorance ""Who Knows This Patient?"" ISSUES Power Plays Disasters Past Nurses Baby Poop One in Ten Thousand India When Doctors and Patients Speak Different Languages AIDS Taking Precautions Dying Curing Assess and Advise DNR PUTTING IT TOGETHER A Weekend in the Life Match Day Conclusion—Baby Doctor"ReviewsFascinating... Klass writes with wit, intelligence, and a great deal of insight. --The New York Times Book Review Writing personally and candidly, she brings the reader into her orbit, into the experiences of a thoughtful person, in situations that are comic, difficult, puzzling and often tragic. There are moving instances of a doctor's mandated objectivity while involved with the dying and with the bereaved. In lighter moments, Klass twits pompous members of the healing profession and offers insights on the status of women doctors; they are frequently mistaken for nurses; men never are. --Publishers Weekly General readers and medical students alike will find this book worth reading. --Library Journal Fascinating... Klass writes with wit, intelligence, and a great deal of insight. -The New York Times Book Review Writing personally and candidly, she brings the reader into her orbit, into the experiences of a thoughtful person, in situations that are comic, difficult, puzzling and often tragic. There are moving instances of a doctor's mandated objectivity while involved with the dying and with the bereaved. In lighter moments, Klass twits pompous members of the healing profession and offers insights on the status of women doctors; they are frequently mistaken for nurses; men never are. -Publishers Weekly General readers and medical students alike will find this book worth reading. -Library Journal Author InformationPerri Klass is a pediatrician who writes fiction and non-fiction. She writes about children and families, about medicine, about food and travel, and about knitting. She is the author of a novel, The Mercy Rule, and several works of non-fiction, including Treatment Kind and Fair: Letters to a Young Doctor, written in the form of letters to her older son as he starts medical school, and A Not Entirely Benign Procedure. She lives in New York City, where she is Professor of Journalism and Pediatrics at New York University, and she has three children of her own. She is also National Medical Director of Reach Out and Read, a national literacy organization which works through doctors and nurses to promote parents reading aloud to young children. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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