Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Kirkus Reviews and BookPage


€œIlluminates human fragility in tales both lyrical and soul-wrenching.€ â...

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Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Kirkus Reviews and BookPage


€œIlluminates human fragility in tales both lyrical and soul-wrenching.€ €"Danielle Ofri, New York Times Book Review


In this €œartful, unfailingly human, and understandable€ (Boston Globe) account inspired by his own experiences becoming a doctor, Terrence Holt puts readers on the front lines of the harrowing crucible of a medical residency. A medical classic in the making, hailed by critics as capturing €œthe feelings of a young doctor€s three-year hospital residency . . . better than anything else I have ever read€ (Susan Okie, Washington Post), Holt brings a writer€s touch and a doctor€s eye to nine unforgettable stories where the intricacies of modern medicine confront the mysteries of the human spirit. Internal Medicine captures the €œstark moments of success and failure, pride and shame, courage and cowardice, self-reflection and obtuse blindness that mark the years of clinical training€ (Jerome Groopman, New York Review of Books), portraying not only a doctor€s struggle with sickness and suffering but also the fears and frailties each of us€"doctor and patient€"bring to the bedside.

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