Intern: A Doctor's Initiation

"In Jauhar's wise memoir of his two-year ordeal of doubt and sleep
deprivation at a New York hospital, he takes readers to the heart of
every young physician's hardest test: to become a doctor yet remain a
human being." ― Time
Intern is
Dr. Sandeep Jauhar's story of his days and nights in residency at a busy
hospital in New York City, a trial that led him to question his every
assumption about medical care today.
Residency―and especially its
first year, the internship―is legendary for its brutality, and Jauhar's
experience was even more harrowing than most. He switched from physics
to medicine in order to follow a more humane calling―only to find that
his new profession often had little regard for patients' concerns. He
struggled to find a place among squadrons of cocky residents and
doctors. He challenged the practices of the internship in The New York Times,
attracting the suspicions of the medical bureaucracy. Then, suddenly
stricken, he became a patient himself―and came to see that today's
high-tech, high-pressure medicine can be a humane science after all. 
Jauhar's beautifully written memoir explains the inner workings of modern medicine with rare candor and insight.