LEADER 03604cam 2200493Ia 4500001 ocm61242106 003 OCoLC 005 20141212070630.0 008 050810s2005 nyu 000 0aeng d 010 2004046893 020 0312324847 (pbk.) 020 9780312324841 (pbk.) 029 1 YDXCP |b2188384 035 (Sirsi) o61242106 035 (OCoLC)61242106 040 IHZ |cIHZ |dBAKER |dBTCTA |dYDXCP |dSINTU |dNEH |dUtOrBLW 049 NEHH 050 14 R154.T673N58 082 04 610.92 |222 100 1 Transue, Emily R. |=^A1047796 245 10 On call : |ba doctor's days and nights in residency / |cEmily R. Transue. 250 1st St. Martin's Griffin ed. 260 New York : |bSt. Martin's Griffin, |c2005. 300 242 pages ; |c22 cm 336 text |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |2rdamedia 338 volume |2rdacarrier 520 On Call begins with a newly-minted doctor checking in for her first day of residency--wearing the long white coat of an MD and being called "Doctor" for the first time. Having studied at Yale and Dartmouth, Dr. Emily Transue arrives in Seattle to start her internship in Internal Medicine just after graduating from medical school. This series of loosely interconnected scenes from the author's medical training concludes her residency three years later. During her first week as a student on the medical wards, Dr. Transue watched someone come into the emergency room in cardiac arrest and die. Nothing like this had ever happened to her before-it was a long way from books and labs. So she began to record her experiences as she gained confidence putting her book knowledge to work. The stories focus on the patients Dr. Transue encountered in the hospital, ER and clinic; some are funny and others tragic. They range in scope from brief interactions in the clinic to prolonged relationships during hospitalization. There is a man newly diagnosed with lung cancer who is lyrical about his life on a sunny island far away, and a woman, just released from a breathing machine after nearly dying, who sits up and demands a cup of coffee. Though the book has a great deal of medical content, the focus is more on the stories of the patients' lives and illnesses and the relationships that developed between the patients and the author, and the way both parties grew in the course of these experiences. Along the way, the book describes the life of a resident physician and reflects on the way the medical system treats both its patients and doctors. On Call provides a window into the experience of patients at critical junctures in life and into the author's own experience as a new member of the medical profession. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc. 600 10 Transue, Emily R. |=^A1047796 650 0 Interns (Medicine) |zUnited States |vBiography. |=^A210222 650 0 Physician and patient. |=^A769 650 2 Internship and Residency |zUnited States. |=^A920126 650 0 Autobiography. |=^A24893 650 2 Physicians, Women. |=^A919343 650 2 Patients. |=^A917927 938 Baker and Taylor |bBTCP |nBK0006207750 938 YBP Library Services |bYANK |n2188384 938 Baker & Taylor |bBKTY |c14.95 |d11.21 |i0312324847 |n0006207750 |sactive 949 W 20 T772o 2004 |hHSL101 |i31740082712633 |ohdjr |p$15.99 994 C0 |bNEH 096 W 20 T772o 2004 596 4 998 2529737