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When I started medical school, I had no idea that I would become a writer. I'd completed a PhD in the biochemistry of endorphin receptors, and planned to become a bench scientist with a once-a-week clinic to see patients.

But during residency, I fell in love with patient-care, and realized that I'd have to put bench research aside. After three years of training, I took off some time to travel. I spent 18 months on the road, working occasional medical temp-jobs to earn money, and then exploring Latin America for as long as my money would last.

It was during these travels, during this first true break from medicine, that I started writing down the stories of my medical training at Bellevue Hospital. I had no intentions about a book, or publishi...more


Maybe it was simply human nature that no one wanted to be sick on weekends. Or admit to it. Or do something about it. Whatever the reason, Mondays were always the days of reckoning: weekend walls of denial came crashing down, weekend indiscretions faced their due, weekend warriors paid their price in blood. Admissions poured into the hospital. It was as though the map of Brooklyn had been curle... read more »
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Published on June 01, 2012 14:31
Average rating: 3.91 · 225 ratings · 41 reviews · 9 distinct works
Singular Intimacies: Becomi...
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions
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Incidental FIndings: Lesson...
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Medicine in Translation: Jo...
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions
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What Doctors Feel: How Emot...
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