Medical school: The dramatic true story of how four years turned a class of raw students into qualified physicians
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Medical school: The dramatic true story of how four years turned a class of raw students into qualified physicians
Medical School reads like a high-powered drama, full of the you-are-there chills, tensions and confrontations that every doctor-to-be must endure to earn his or her degree. Superbly told by a prize winning medical reporter who actually followed the class of '78 at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine through four intense years, the story is related through the personal experiences of one group of students. It follows them from the beginning, where in the anatomy lab, we see them cutting into human bodies for the first time... to the hospital where they - and we -confront their first patients.. .to the delivery room where a student delivers her first baby... and into the surgical intensive-care unit, where the weak or bewildered are driven momentarily insane by the stress