Becoming a Doctor: A Journey of Initiation in Medical School Book

Not a must-read, but a good one for med students. I actually read it once in college because I was an anthro major (the author was an anthro phd before he became a doctor) and was thinking about applying to med school. It was interesting to read it again nearly ten years later and in the throes of my MS3 year myself, the year book chronicles. I found it to be particularly interesting with regard to what it's like to go from being an adult with a career and your own self-sufficient life to being a student again, feeling and being treated like a child, and trying to figure out how to navigate the hierarchy of medicine. Konner has a lot of great insights into how we can be more human as doctors and connect with our patients as people, but he's a little self-righteous at times and even admits toward the end to developing some cynicism himself. ALSO I dunno if this is just a sign of the early 80s when this book was written but jeezus he constantly refers to women in the book--from patients to patients loved ones to his fellow medical professionals--in pretty sexual language, which was distracting and cringe-worthy at times.