Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, Healer Commemorative Edition Book

"Intern: A Doctor's Initiation" is at times shouting in your face with brutal "hot pink" honesty bringing back memories of me and my brother accidentally seeing a cadaver at Rio Hondo Hospital. This memory was similar to what made Dr. Jauhar vomit in-between patients. "Cookbook medicine" is the generic term he applies to the medical practice and not something he wishes to emulate. "Creare fabulis" and drones mimic.

"One thing I never thought seriously about was becoming a doctor. In fact, for most of my life, medicine was the last thing I wanted to do...Welcome, Doctor. Will you have a drink?"
---Sandeep Jauhar, MD

Given the suffering, we can deduce this doctor needs to be under a doctor's care. During his internship Sandeep wobbles between being a depressed ascetic and an agnostic living in a hyperhidrotic world burdened with self-guilt. "When you didn't know what you were doing...anything could happen." Especially in the case of a patient pulling out a urinary catheter and then having to tap another patient's artery---for the first time.

Masochistic tread of bloody septic bare feet on sharp rusty nails is my description of this journey. Dr. Jauhar makes his rounds and finds the clandestine "schatz" in the wards. Going from physicist (having finished his doctoral dissertation on quantum dots) to physician and then on to writing for the prestigious New York Times. Absolute medicinal morphine in "Intern: A Doctor's Initiation!" Brace yourself, buy and read.