Internal Medicine A Doctor Stories (Audible Audio Edition) Terrence Holt Gregory DeCandia Audible Studios Books
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"[Terrence Holt] is Melville + Poe + Borges but with a heart far more capacious." (Junot Díaz)
Out of the crucible of medical training, award-winning writer Terrence Holt shapes this stunning account of residency, the years-long ordeal in which doctors are made. "Amid all the mess and squalor of the hospital, with its blind random unraveling of lives", Internal Medicine finds the compassion from which doctors discover the strength to care.
Holt's debut collection of short stories, In the Valley of the Kings, was praised by the New York Times Book Review as one of "those works of genius" that "will endure for as long as our hurt kind remains to require their truth". Now he returns with Internal Medicine - a work based on his own experiences as a physician, offering an insider's access to the long night of the hospital, where the intricacies of medical technology confront the mysteries of the human spirit.
"A Sign of Weakness" takes us through a grueling nightlong vigil at the bedside of a dying woman. In her "small whimpering noises, rhythmic, paced almost to the beating of my heart", a doctor confronts his own helplessness, clinging "like a child to the thought of morning". In the unforgettable "Giving Bad News," we struggle with a man who maddeningly, terrifyingly refuses to remember his terminal diagnosis, forcing us to tell him, again and again, what we never should have wanted to tell him at all.
At the bedside of a hospice patient dying in a house full of cursing parrots in "The Surgical Mask", we reach the limits of what we are able to face in human suffering, in our own horror at what happens to our bodies as they die.
In the psychiatric hospital of "Iron Maiden", a routine chest X-ray opens a window onto a nightmare vision of medieval torture and a recognition of how our mortality drives all of us to madness.
In these four stories and five others, Internal Medicine captures the doctor's struggle not only with sickness, suffering, and death but the fears and frailties each of us - patient and doctor alike - brings to the bedside. In a powerful alchemy of insight and compassion, Holt reveals how those vulnerabilities are the foundations of caring. Intensely realized, gently ironic, heartfelt and heartbreaking, Internal Medicine is an account of what it means to be a doctor, to be mortal, and to be human.
Internal Medicine A Doctor Stories (Audible Audio Edition) Terrence Holt Gregory DeCandia Audible Studios Books
This readable book opens the hospital doors to the average reader and reveals the inner workings of the institution itself as well as the medical personnel within. Fascinating stories of patients with various conditions are discussed. Unfortunately, the author tells us that these are not real patients, as using real patients would be an invasion of privacy. Why, if names and locations were changed? Still, one can't help but be drawn in to each chapter: It's fascinating stuff, and we understand that it is based on real experiences. The reader also gains insight into the lives of interns, residents, nurses, and doctors, and how they cope with the sometimes-awful demands of their professions.I would recommend this book to anyone with an interest in medical issues. It can be an upsetting read at times, but informative and well written.
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Internal Medicine A Doctor Stories (Audible Audio Edition) Terrence Holt Gregory DeCandia Audible Studios Books Reviews
Started out really great. Incredibly interesting. All the description and insights from time in the hospital made the first 3/4 hard to put down. I was hooked right up until the hospice part. It got a bit boring at that point and honestly I wanted to yell at the author to pull it together. The more technical medical details that were so engrossing in the beginning were gone and the story ground to a halt until the end.
I would have loved to read a whole book just about the individual cases and crazy lifestyle a resident experiences.
Dr.Holt captures the training experience with wonderful accuracy, insight, and gallows humor. No doubt the best book I've read on the subject. Highly recommended !
I read a lot of books revolving around doctors lives, training, hospitals and medical situations and this book is very different from most of them. It is very well written, almost like a novel. all the situations and stories also are far from the ordinary. I will read this again.
This book is a searingly clear tale of what it takes to become an MD. today. Although it is clearly; and plainly stated to be somewhat autobiographical, the author tells you in advance that he is blending patients and outcomes to protect families. But he does not protect himself and fellow doctors.
The sorrow is that Terrence Holt, recognizes humanity. Which many dr.s do not. See his tale of the, "Grand Inquisitor". Of course no need if you have read Dostoevsky.
As a retired medical transcriptionist, I found this book enjoyable and well written. What was really "scary" to me was the fact that these Residents work so many long back to back shifts caring for humans and making life threatening decisions regarding someones body. The AMA really needs to change and stop this practice of working residents and interns on back to back 24 hour shifts. Who does it help? A "good read" for anyone who has worked with doctors and nurses in hospitals.
Dr. Holt has a very developed ear for a turn of phrase ("He had an oddly small face, the features jammed together as though from a lifetime of looking through keyholes") and the vocabulary is medical fun. I ate up the reflections on life on the medical wards and in the field doing a hospice rotation, but a gap in the perfection comes near the end when a protracted third-party story is told with unnatural clunkiness. I wish he had a more practiced, natural-sounding quotation style (Louise Erdrich's comes most readily to my mind). However, eavesdropping on his protagonist's musings as he humbly faces the realities of modern medical training is an easy and enjoyable read for anybody even marginally curious about what it might be like.
To become a physician, I believe, requires as much of a spiritual calling as it does to become a priest, minister or rabbi. If a fat paycheck is the primary motivator for a career in medicine, I suspect that person will not survive residency. Exhibit A This book.
Written by a practicing internist a decade after he completed his three-year residency in internal medicine, this book will give the non-medical person a hint of what this grueling training is all about. I say a hint, because simply reading the book will not make you feel what all residents must endure the utter exhaustion of seemingly endless shifts, the pressure to remember so much information at a moment's notice, the mind-numbing paperwork and the heartbreak of losing patients. But it will give you more empathy for your own doctor.
The writing is superb, and while it's nonfiction, it is as engrossing as a novel. Unlike other types of medical residencies, internal medicine is a kind of medical catch-all. These residents do it all--from the emergency room to intensive care, from clinics to hospice. And that is what makes this book so compelling. Author Terrence Holt takes you along as he experiences it--the adrenaline-pumping code blue, a young woman who commits suicide by Tylenol (a death that is excruciatingly drawn-out and painful), in-home hospice care with a woman whose mouth has been eaten away by skin cancer, a psychiatric hospital where two patients do horrific and gruesome things to hurt themselves (no spoilers here), and being with a family as the matriarch dies. There is more. A lot more.
While some of the stories are disturbing (you won't want to read this book while eating lunch), they will all give you an appreciation for the medical profession. My hope is that if I am ever hospitalized, I have a resident who is as caring as Dr. Holt. It's a fascinating book, and I highly recommend it.
This readable book opens the hospital doors to the average reader and reveals the inner workings of the institution itself as well as the medical personnel within. Fascinating stories of patients with various conditions are discussed. Unfortunately, the author tells us that these are not real patients, as using real patients would be an invasion of privacy. Why, if names and locations were changed? Still, one can't help but be drawn in to each chapter It's fascinating stuff, and we understand that it is based on real experiences. The reader also gains insight into the lives of interns, residents, nurses, and doctors, and how they cope with the sometimes-awful demands of their professions.
I would recommend this book to anyone with an interest in medical issues. It can be an upsetting read at times, but informative and well written.
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