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  <title><![CDATA[A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years As A Medical Student]]></title>
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  <default_description>Surviving Harvard Medical School, Klass offers an unflinchingly honest view of this journey--from the perspective of a woman and mother in a field dominated by men and masculine sensibilities. Like Melvin Konner's Becoming a Doctor: A Not Entirely Benign Procedure, Klass's work has &quot;wit, intelligence, and a great deal of insight&quot; (The New York Times Book Review).</default_description>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Perri Klass is that rare beast, a doctor who cares for people and writing.  She writes with humor and little regret in this collection of (updated) essays about learning to become a medical professional, to get on with the business of medicine while suffering from sleep deprivation and terminable ig...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45579062">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Sep 14 04:16:15 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[pretty entertaining collection of essays about her experience as a medical student. Interesting to see how your view of the world changes as a med student, and how she starts to become kind of smug and superior, until her own pregnancy bumps up against the way medical school trains them to view ever...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32829214">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 24 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was recommended to me to get a flavor for what life is like as a medical student - particularly a slightly older, female, non-traditional student.<br/><br/>The book is frankly scary if you're considering medicine as a career - the overwhelming stress and forced maturation she describes i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19374647">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[time peice]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a fairly intimidating book.  It consists of essays written by the author as she progressed through medical school into internship, having a child and quite a lot of doubts along the way.  I liked the unusually frank portrayal of med students, interns, residents and general hospital care.  I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16351334">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This auto-biography of a young medical student during her internship and residency really helps one understand what a doctor learns, not only academically and clinically, but also psychologically. She documents how she was taught to distance herself from her patients, something she never wanted to d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16741805">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jun 06 06:11:04 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had read this freshman year, but re-read now. It is med-nerd book #1 in a series of med-nerd books that I plan on reading. I feel like it might be a bit out of date, but it's an easy read, and makes me think that I might not actually die in this process. Maybe.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book took me back to medical school!  I remember being so green and wondering if I would ever get the hang of it.  Now I wish I had all of the idealism back that I lost on the way! ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Highly recommended.  I read this years ago; it was terrific and many things that she wrote really stuck in my head.]]></body>
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