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"Dr. Peters, the patient has stopped breathing!" The nurse's voice on the phone is desperate, but young Dr. Peters, in his first weeks of internship, is bone-tired and a little afraid. He's forgotten when he last slept. Yet he knows that in the coming hours he will have to make life or death decisions, assist contemptuous surgeons, deal with nurses who may know more than he does, and pretend at all times to be what he has not yet become - a fully qualified doctor.Tags
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it took me years to track down a copy to of this book to read since Cook is one of my favorite authors. The story was good and well written, with good details of whats going on. being honest if i would have read this as the first Cook book i ever read i may not feel as in love with him as i did.
The Year of the Intern reads like a non-fiction memoir-like account of a medical intern. It focuses on the dull, day to day life of an intern that we've all seen countless times on medical television shows like ER. Robin Cook fans are used to his fast-paced thrillers and this early book is nothing like his more recent novels.
The Year of the Intern looks at the stressful and exhausting job a surgical intern has. The book focuses on Dr. Peters' fear and his grief at the loss of patients. It's disconcerting reading about a doctor unsure of himself as we usually like to believe that doctors are strong and have all the answers.
The bottom line is the book just wasn't that interesting. It kind of got under my skin, making me fear being left in show more the hands of an intern at the hospital, but the actual story in the book left me wanting more. If you're looking for suspenseful, medical thrillers, skip this one and stick with Robin Cooks later books. show less
The Year of the Intern looks at the stressful and exhausting job a surgical intern has. The book focuses on Dr. Peters' fear and his grief at the loss of patients. It's disconcerting reading about a doctor unsure of himself as we usually like to believe that doctors are strong and have all the answers.
The bottom line is the book just wasn't that interesting. It kind of got under my skin, making me fear being left in show more the hands of an intern at the hospital, but the actual story in the book left me wanting more. If you're looking for suspenseful, medical thrillers, skip this one and stick with Robin Cooks later books. show less
Despite the fact that this is not a real medical thriller, I liked the book because of the description it gave of the life of an intern.
Can't help it, but I keep thinking 'how on earth is that possible', 'it won't be so bad here, will it'?
Can't help it, but I keep thinking 'how on earth is that possible', 'it won't be so bad here, will it'?
Boring. Found it so boring, and I love his novels!! This year as an intern thing...not so good.
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'Dr Peters, the patient has stopped breathing and doesn't have a pulse'.
The nurse's voice on the phone is desperate, but young Dr Peters, in his first weeks of internship, is only bone-tired and a little afraid. He has forgotten when he last slept. Yet he knows that within the coming hours he will have to make life-or-death decisions regarding patients, assist contemptuous surgeons in the operating room, deal with nurses who may know more than he does, cope with worried relatives and friends of the injured and ill, and pretend at all times to be what he has not yet become - a fully qualified doctor.
This book is about what happens to a young intern as he goes through the year that promises to make him into a doctor, and show more threatens to destroy him as a human being. show less
'Dr Peters, the patient has stopped breathing and doesn't have a pulse'.
The nurse's voice on the phone is desperate, but young Dr Peters, in his first weeks of internship, is only bone-tired and a little afraid. He has forgotten when he last slept. Yet he knows that within the coming hours he will have to make life-or-death decisions regarding patients, assist contemptuous surgeons in the operating room, deal with nurses who may know more than he does, cope with worried relatives and friends of the injured and ill, and pretend at all times to be what he has not yet become - a fully qualified doctor.
This book is about what happens to a young intern as he goes through the year that promises to make him into a doctor, and show more threatens to destroy him as a human being. show less
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Es el relato apasionante y veraz de la vida de un joven médico en su primer año de internado en un hospital. Lleno de dudas y temores, en un estado constante de agotamiento físico y psíquico, se ve de pronto obligado a cargar con responsabilidades para las que no está capacitado y a tomar rápidas decisiones que afectan vidas humanas.
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Robin (Robert William Arthur) Cook, the master of the medical thriller novel, was born to Edgar Lee Cook, a commercial artist and businessman, and Audrey (Koons) Cook on May 4, 1940, in New York City. Cook spent his childhood in Leonia, New Jersey, and decided to become a doctor after seeing a football injury at his high school. He earned a B.A. show more from Wesleyan University in 1962, his M.D. from Columbia University in 1966, and completed postgraduate training at Harvard before joining the U.S. Navy. Cook began his first novel, The Year of the Intern, while serving on a submarine, basing it on his experiences as a surgical resident. In 1979, Cook wed Barbara Ellen Mougin, on whom the character Denise Sanger in Brain is based. When Year of the Intern did not do particularly well, Cook began an extensive study of other books in the genre to see what made a bestseller. He decided to focus on suspenseful medical mysteries, mixing intricately plotted murder and intrigue with medical technology, as a way to bring controversial ethical and social issues affecting the medical profession to the attention of the general public. His subjects include organ transplants, genetic engineering, experimentation with fetal tissue, cancer research and treatment, and deadly viruses. Cook put this format to work very successfully in his next books, Coma and Sphinx, which not only became bestsellers, but were eventually adapted for film. Three others, Terminal, Mortal Fear, and Virus, and Cook's first science- fiction work, Invasion, have been television movies. In 2014 her title, Cell made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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