Word: internship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INTERN, by Doctor X. A young doctor's log of his internship in a city hospital is filled with continual, overlapping crises, costly mistakes and occasional triumphs...
...should be quite clear that Dr. X, a physician now in practice, has no intention of deifying the man in white. Some of his colleagues may conclude, though wrongly, that his purpose is to destroy medicine's meticulously protected public image. The book logs the author's internship year at an unidentified metropolitan hospital in the Southwest, just as he recounted it into a tape recorder at odd moments snatched from duty. Its candor conceals nothing but the true names of patients and staff. The result is a rare and unforgettable account of that underpaid, overworked, fumble-fingered...
...programs as if such impediments didn't exist. When the state wouldn't give him enough money for psychiatrists, he and his staff borrowed highly qualified staff members from the Law-Medicine Institute of Boston University. Furthemore, skilled medical doctors about to become licensed psychiatrists may now fulfill their internship requirements in state penal institutions providing valuable experience for them and skilled assistance for the inmates...
...arrived on his own or was sent by his doctor, is assigned a single "personal physician" out of the 120 internists at the clinic. The internist sees his patient briefly at first; then a medical history is taken by a "fellow"-a young M.D. who has finished his internship and is serving a residency at Mayo...
...years," he said. "It's like letting medical students practice on the basis of theory alone. Law school moot trials are merely glorified debates, because they are patterned on the appellate courts, which are not concerned with the gathering of evidence and the marshalling of an argument. A legal internship is what we're after...