Internal medicine a doctor's stories

"Out of the crucible of medical training, award-winning writer Terrence Holt shapes this ... account of residency, the years-long ordeal in which doctors are made. 'Amid all the mess and squalor of the hospital, with its blind random unraveling of lives,' [this book] finds the compassion from which...

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Main Author: Holt, Terry
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
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Summary:"Out of the crucible of medical training, award-winning writer Terrence Holt shapes this ... account of residency, the years-long ordeal in which doctors are made. 'Amid all the mess and squalor of the hospital, with its blind random unraveling of lives,' [this book] finds the compassion from which doctors discover the strength to care"--Dust jacket flap.
Physical Description:xii, 273 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:9780871408754 (hardcover) :
0871408759 (hardcover)
Author Notes:Terrence Holt is the author of In the Valley of the Kings and the widely acclaimed Internal Medicine . Once an internist specializing in geriatric medicine, he now teaches medicine and creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.