A Year-long Night - Softcover

Klitzman, Robert

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ISBN 10: 0140102531 ISBN 13: 9780140102536

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1990

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A doctor recounts his year of medical internship and reveals the codes and rituals required for handling procedures and crises, as well as the devastating effects of encountering constant human suffering

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A Yale Medical School graduate, Klitzman joins the ranks of young doctors whose emotionally charged first year of internship impels them to record their initial experiences of suffering, healing and death. Each of his medical rotations is represented by short episodes, usually centered around a single patient. Indeed, what distinguishes this account from others of its kind is not only literary promise, but the author's interest in patients as human beings with distinct personalities whose identities and wishes he respectsqualities that should serve him well in his present residency in psychiatry at a New York hospital. A particularly interesting chapter is devoted to a year spent in a New Guinea village researching a disease linked with cannibalism.
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