MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 03080cam a2200373 i 4500
001 2014037870
003 DLC
005 20151105081524.0
008 140925s2015 nyu 000 0aeng
010 $a 2014037870
020 $a9780804138659 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $an-us-ny
050 00 $aR154.M156$bA3 2015
082 00 $a610.71/55092$aB$223
084 $aBIO017000$aBIO026000$aMED074000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aMcCarthy, Matt.
245 14 $aThe real doctor will see you shortly :$ba physician's first year /$cMatt McCarthy.
264 1 $aNew York :$bCrown,$c[2015]
300 $a323 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"This funny, candid memoir about the author's intern year at a New York hospital provides a scorchingly frank look at how doctors are made, taking readers into the critical care unit to see one burgeoning physician's journey from ineptitude to competence. After his professional baseball career failed to launch, Matt McCarthy went to Harvard Medical School and on to a coveted residency slot in New York. But when he almost lost a patient on his first day after making what he believed to be a terrible error, he found himself facing the harsh reality of a new doctor's life--one in which even overachievers find themselves humbled, and in which med school training has little to offer in navigating the emotional rollercoaster of dealing with actual patients. Luckily for McCarthy, his second-year-resident adviser (whom he calls "Baio", owing to a resemblance to a Charles in Charge-era Scott Baio) was an offbeat genius, with a knack for breaking down the complicated process of treating patients. But neither doctor could offer much help to a patient named Barney, who had been living in the hospital while waiting for a new heart, and whom McCarthy slowly befriended over the course of the year in ways that changed his perception of what it means to be a physician. Mixing the tense drama of ER with the screwball humor of Scrubs, McCarthy offers a window on to hospital life that dispenses with sanctimony and self-seriousness while emphasizing the black-comic paradox of becoming a doctor: How do you learn how to save lives in a job where there is no practice? This "One L for doctors" will inspire and entertain physicians and patients alike"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"A young doctor stumbles through his experience as a first year intern at a major New York hospital"--$cProvided by publisher.
600 10 $aMcCarthy, Matt.
650 0 $aMedical students$zNew York (State)$zNew York$vBiography.
650 0 $aInterns (Medicine)$zNew York (State)$zNew York$vBiography.
650 0 $aResidents (Medicine)$zNew York (State)$zNew York$vBiography.
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aMEDICAL / Physician & Patient.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$u9780804138659.jpg