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...Intern, Doctor...
...INTERN, by Doctor X. At the end of each 20-hour day that he spent as an intern in a metropolitan hospital, Doctor X wearily logged every last event into a tape recorder. The result is as remote and fascinating as an anthropologist's field report, as immediate and authentic as a skilled eyewitness account...
...Announced his intention to establish a United Nations fellowship program in memory of Adlai Stevenson. Details are lacking, but broad-brush plans call for recruitment of young people from U.N. member countries to "intern" in U.N. agencies. The program is similar to the White House fellowships, awarded this year for the first time to 15 young Americans who in September will begin to work in Washington...
Some readers will depart these pages vowing to die rather than set foot in another hospital. Many of Dr. X's glimpses of what goes on there are indeed horrifying. An obstetrician funks a difficult delivery, leaving it up to the intern, who has never presided over any birth at all, much less a critical one. An addicted nurse steals morphine from her patients. A surgeon carelessly ties off the wrong artery in a simple operation; gangrene sets in and the patient not only loses her leg but is charged $3,000 in hospitalization and extra surgery charges resulting...
...convenes for a no-holds-barred critique of its own performance. "I wonder how many laymen," writes Dr. X, "ever even dream that 60 of the city's doctors gather voluntarily for the sole purpose of keeping themselves sharp and on their toes?" For every lapse of skill, Intern cites ten occasions where a brilliant diagnosis, or a skillful stroke of the scalpel, frustrated man's ultimate enemy...