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...also, as always, a summer for the return of rituals that accompany the descent of the intern hordes...
Harvard conducted a search for a replacement, and chose Joel Glass, a graduate assistant SID at Florida. Jeff Bradley, a 1986 graduate of the University of North Carolina--and younger brother of Seattle Mariners's catcher Scott Bradley--was brought in as a full-time intern...
...that crucial first year, "I was tired enough that I nodded off at the surgery table," admits Michael Longaker, who is still putting in 18-hour days as a third-year resident in cardiology at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center. During his entire year as an intern, he says, "I don't remember too many nights when I got more than three or four hours' sleep...
...intensity of the training but the work itself. Today's trainees spend far more time dealing with administrative detail, owing in part to the omnipresent fear of malpractice suits. "You spend a lot of time doing paperwork because of the so-called medical-legal environment," says Lora Wiggins, an intern at Winthrop University Hospital in Mineola, Long Island. "You're exhausted, and you are dealing with two kinds of criteria for how you act." To add to the burdens, today's hospital patients tend, as a group, to be more sick than ever before. Technology has enabled extremely ill patients...
...Interns are chosen by TIME editors from among hundreds of applicants put forward by colleges. Their credentials are impressive. Intern Stephanie Thomas, 21, of Barnard College, has visited Turkey nine times. She wound up writing in the World section. Marta Lavandier, 23, studies photojournalism at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She became a picture researcher. Lisa Kazmier, 21, of Northwestern University, has worked for two daily newspapers. Her task: writing in the Milestones section...