"In Jauhar's wise memoir of his two-year ordeal of doubt and sleepdeprivation at a New York hospital, he takes readers to the heart ofevery young physician's hardest test: to become a doctor yet remain ahuman being."―TimeInternisDr. Sandeep Jauhar's story of his days and nights in residency at a busyhospital in New York City, a trial that led him to question his everyassumption about medical care today.Residency―and especially itsfirst year, the internship―is legendary for its brutality, and Jauhar'sexperience was even more harrowing than most. He switched from physicsto medicine in order to follow a more humane calling―only to find thathis new profession often had little regard for patients' concerns. Hestruggled to find a place among squadrons of cocky residents anddoctors. He challenged the practices of the internship inThe New York Times,attracting the suspicions of the medical bureaucracy. Then, suddenlystricken, he became a patient himself―and came to see that today'shigh-tech, high-pressure medicine can be a humane science after all.Jauhar's beautifully written memoir explains the inner workings of modern medicine with rare candor and insight.