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White Coat Tales: Becoming & Being Urban Doctors 1946-2006
Walk the wards of the real Cook County emergency department, catch babies in cars on the streets of Brooklyn, experience the heart wrenching and warming triumphs and trials of medical students training in Pittsburgh and on the floors of Chicago's Mount Sinai Hospital as you tag along with the men and women of White Coat Tales. Contributed by physicians from all over the country, this anthology of short stories over the decades reveals the world of medicine embedded within the urban cultures of metropolitan cities and representing eras of doctoring from the 1940's to today. PROCEEDS OF BOOK WILL BE DONATED TO THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
388 pages, Paperback
First published July 7, 2006
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January 5, 2016
Awful.
These stories are boring at the best and offensive. If you're interested in the history of medical school in Chicago, read the first few chapters. If you're interested in xenophobia and disdain for foreign medical graduates, continue a little further. You may also encounter a tenuous link between patient confidentiality and the risk this poses to US citizens being victims of terrorism.
As a foreign medical graduate I can count my lucky stars that I'll never have to work with the boring authors who seem to think these run-of-the-mill stories with no originality are interesting or funny. Perhaps I should write a book of my own? It doesn't seem too hard to get published.
I have never been angry with an author or editor like I was with this book. The chief editor seems like a nice old doctor who has nothing to say but wanted to publish funny stories. He never managed to find any. Instead, he got sidled with a fresh MD who appears to think every second essay is her personal real estate to talk about whatever comes to mind. If either of these editors had ever travelled or experienced something other than their sheltered lives, they might have something to say.
Disclaimer: I didn't finish this book, but then again, I should never have started it.
These stories are boring at the best and offensive. If you're interested in the history of medical school in Chicago, read the first few chapters. If you're interested in xenophobia and disdain for foreign medical graduates, continue a little further. You may also encounter a tenuous link between patient confidentiality and the risk this poses to US citizens being victims of terrorism.
As a foreign medical graduate I can count my lucky stars that I'll never have to work with the boring authors who seem to think these run-of-the-mill stories with no originality are interesting or funny. Perhaps I should write a book of my own? It doesn't seem too hard to get published.
I have never been angry with an author or editor like I was with this book. The chief editor seems like a nice old doctor who has nothing to say but wanted to publish funny stories. He never managed to find any. Instead, he got sidled with a fresh MD who appears to think every second essay is her personal real estate to talk about whatever comes to mind. If either of these editors had ever travelled or experienced something other than their sheltered lives, they might have something to say.
Disclaimer: I didn't finish this book, but then again, I should never have started it.
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