Becoming a Doctor From Student to Specialist,

In this inspired anthology, doctors relate true stories from their professional lives, capturing disillusionments and triumphs encountered along the way. Essays by such distinguished writers as Peter D. Kramer, Kay Redfield Jamison, Danielle Ofri, Robert Coles, Lauren Slater, Sandeep Jauhar, and Perri Klass create a vivid mural of the medical world, from a student#xE2;#x80;#x99;s uneasy first encounter with a cadaver to a veteran doctor#xE2;#x80;#x99;s memories of the emotionally charged days and nights of residency.

Lee Gutkind is the founder and editor of the literary magazine Creative Nonfiction and has written books about baseball, health care, travel, and technology. A Distinguished Writer in Residence at Arizona State University, he lives in Pittsburgh and Tempe, Arizona.

Introduction: Writing About Doctors	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Intern	p. 1
Pas de Deux	p. 9
First in My Class	p. 25
The Patient Narrative	p. 39
The Family Room	p. 51
On Not Becoming Doctor	p. 59
Magic Hands	p. 69
On Working with Cadavers	p. 79
Going to Abilene	p. 97
Sine Qua Non	p. 103
The Doctor in Middle Age	p. 111
A Doctor of None	p. 125
Good Intentions	p. 135
En Route	p. 143
A Fire, Deliberately Set	p. 153
Thirty Minutes Closer	p. 171
The Cleverest Doctor	p. 181
A Manner of Being	p. 197
Knock Knock	p. 203
Contributor Notes	p. 223
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Becoming a Doctor From Student to Specialist, Doctor-Writers Share Their Experiences

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