Prognosis: Poor
One Doctor's Personal Account of the Beauty and the Perils of Modern Medical Training
Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Medical, Reference, Education & Training
| Author: | Frances Southwick, D.O | ISBN: | 9781682220887 |
| Publisher: | BookBaby | Publication: | October 10, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Frances Southwick, D.O |
| ISBN: | 9781682220887 |
| Publisher: | BookBaby |
| Publication: | October 10, 2015 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Prognosis: Poor is a poignant snapshot of one physician's medical training. Frances Southwick, D.O. explores the highs and lows (more often the lows) of the process of becoming a doctor. She delivers colorful detail inside the mind of one trainee, herself, through undergraduate school, medical school and residency. The book focuses most heavily on the capstone of family medicine training: three years of residency in a well-respected Pittsburgh hospital. Dr. Southwick courageously explores her most difficult moments of self-doubt and hopelessness, but wraps the text up with a chapter cataloguing current problems in the training process and how they might be remedied. This memoir highlights the problem of depression in physicians and physicians-in-training as a looming, large, current problem.
Prognosis: Poor is a poignant snapshot of one physician's medical training. Frances Southwick, D.O. explores the highs and lows (more often the lows) of the process of becoming a doctor. She delivers colorful detail inside the mind of one trainee, herself, through undergraduate school, medical school and residency. The book focuses most heavily on the capstone of family medicine training: three years of residency in a well-respected Pittsburgh hospital. Dr. Southwick courageously explores her most difficult moments of self-doubt and hopelessness, but wraps the text up with a chapter cataloguing current problems in the training process and how they might be remedied. This memoir highlights the problem of depression in physicians and physicians-in-training as a looming, large, current problem.
