Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
✍ Scribed by Collins, Michael J
- Book ID
- 108297326
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 263 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781429903073
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
When Michael Collins decides to become a surgeon, he is totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital. A natural overachiever, Collins' success, in college and medical school led to a surgical residency at one of the most respected medical centers in the world, the famed Mayo Clinic. But compared to his fellow residents Collins feels inadequate and unprepared. All too soon, the euphoria of beginning his career as an orthopedic resident gives way to the feeling he is a counterfeit, an imposter who has infiltrated a society of brilliant surgeons.
This story of Collins' four-year surgical residency traces his rise from an eager but clueless first-year resident to accomplished Chief Resident in his final year. With unparalleled humor, he recounts the disparity between people's perceptions of a doctor's glamorous life and the real thing: a succession of run down cars that are towed to the junk yard, long weekends moonlighting at rural...