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(More customer reviews)There are many books, TV shows and movies about being a doctor, resident or student. Almost always, they are sensationalized and use the extremes of true experience to move their audiences.
This book and this author doesn't need those extremes. With a clear and personal voice, Dr. Feinstein tells stories that allow the reader to march with him through his third year of medical school. He writes about the various patients one sees in the hospital, the clinic, a nursing home, the OR, and how they are as much his teachers as his attendings are.
It's a quick and very entertaining read. In one half-hour, I belly-laughed, gasped and welled-up. One doesn't need theme music or affairs in the call room when the stories are told with such honesty, sympathy and insight. Very well done.
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Most people will, at some point or another, either find themselves dressed in a tiny hospital gown or staring at someone else dressed in a tiny hospital gown. Whether from the perspective of a patient, a family member, or a medical professional, we all have a significant stake in the process of medical education. While numerous memoirs recount physicians' grueling experiences during residency, few focus on the even more formative portion of medical training: the third year of medical school-the clinical year. Short White Coat: Lessons from Patients on Becoming a Doctor is the disarmingly honest, yet endearing and sometimes funny account of a medical student's humbling initiation into the world of patient care.
Written during his third year of medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, James Feinstein's Short White Coat uses a series of engaging narrative essays to illustrate the universal life lessons that his very first patients teach him. He gracefully examines some of the most common issues and feelings that medical students encounter while learning how to meet, talk with, touch, and care for their patients. Along the way, he learns from his own mistakes before discovering the answer to the question that plagues every medical student: "Do I have what it takes to become a doctor?"
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