The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Matt McCarthy
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
225

The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly by Matt McCarthy Book Summary

A scorchingly frank look at how doctors are made, bringing readers into the critical care unit to see one burgeoning physician's journey from ineptitude to competence.

In medical school, Matt McCarthy dreamed of being a different kind of doctor—the sort of mythical, unflappable physician who could reach unreachable patients. But when a new admission to the critical care unit almost died his first night on call, he found himself scrambling. Visions of mastery quickly gave way to hopes of simply surviving hospital life, where confidence was hard to come by and no amount of med school training could dispel the terror of facing actual patients.

This funny, candid memoir of McCarthy’s intern year at a New York hospital provides a scorchingly frank look at how doctors are made, taking readers into patients’ rooms and doctors’ conferences to witness a physician's journey from ineptitude to competence. McCarthy's one stroke of luck paired him with a brilliant second-year adviser he called “Baio” (owing to his resemblance to the Charles in Charge star), who proved to be a remarkable teacher with a wicked sense of humor. McCarthy would learn even more from the people he cared for, including a man named Benny, who was living in the hospital for months at a time awaiting a heart transplant. But no teacher could help McCarthy when an accident put his own health at risk, and showed him all too painfully the thin line between doctor and patient.

The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly 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 to save lives in a job where there is no practice?

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Book Name The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly
Genre Biographies & Memoirs
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Language English
E-Book Size 1.86 MB

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Love. 10/10

Eye opening. I’m applying to medical school and reading Dr. McCarthy’s novel felt like a breath of fresh air. It was honest, emotional, entertaining, and despite the graphic portrayal of medicine it helped solidify my goal of working in this field. Highly recommend to any aspiring doctors/premeds or just anyone who wants a better look at this profession.

A fellow medical doctor’s perspective. I’m a graduate of one of the strongest public allopathic medical schools in the Nation. While I applaud Dr. McCarthy’s candor, I’m astonished that someone who is a graduate of Harvard Medical School (“Man’s Best Medical School”) as well as clinical rotations at the likes of Massachusetts General Hospital (“Man’s Greatest Hospital”) that he apparently graduated and became an intern with such a nonaggressive and weak grasp of basic and clinical essentials which should be drilled into all first, second, third and fourth year medical students. Among many other bedside skills, new clinical house officers (i.e. interns) should know many basic “invasive” procedures including central lines, intubation, spinal taps, arterial blood gases, thoracentesis, paracentesis, running codes, and so on. As I was taught with many invasive procedures, “See one, do one, teach one.” Another pearl of real world wisdom is “There is no body cavity that can’t be reached with a strong arm and an 18-gauge needle.”

:-). This is such a great book. I read it a year ago and really enjoyed it. Hope this author writes a follow up!

Great book!!!. I loved this book! Really shows you what the interns lives are like and how hard it is to be a doctor!

The real doctor is really amazing. Great story of an intern and realities of being a doctor.

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The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly. Having had many encounters with doctors, and volunteering with community nurses, I have to say I enjoyed this book. Should be required reading for all med students, and nursing students. LOVED IT and was sorry when I read the last page.

Great. This book was great. enlightening, humane....who needs fiction when reality can be so riveting?

Great Read. This was such a great read. Beautifully written, I laughed and I cried. Loved hearing about the authors personal experiences about going through the first year of internship. Everyone in the healthcare system should read this I will definitely be recommending it!

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The The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly book written by Matt McCarthy was published on 07 April 2015, Tuesday in the Biographies & Memoirs category. A total of 225 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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