Residents: The Perils and Promise of Educating Young Doctors
David Ewing Duncan

Is the modern residency system outmoded? After four years of study, hundreds of interviews, and thousands of hours spent living among residents, the author presents unnerving evidence of the modern residency as an initiation rite and endurance test essentially unchanged in structure from a century ago. Follow several doctors-to-be through what the author contends is needlessly rigorous and sometimes even dangerous training. Residents also outlines reform measures, some of them already underway in the nation's great academic medical centers.

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Hardcover, 302 pp.
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