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edited by Susan Pories, Sachin H. Jain, and Gordon Harper, 248 pp, paper, $12.95, ISBN-13 978-1-56512-507-0, ISBN-10 1-56512-507-X, Chapel Hill, NC, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006.

JAMA. 2006;296:1141.

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This collection of 44 thoughtful short essays, written by students during their training at Harvard Medical School, is both captivating reading and an instructive cautionary tale for those who would engage the biomedical enterprise in any fashion. Editors Susan Pories, Sachin H. Jain, and Gordon Harper are a breast cancer surgeon, a medical student and class leader, and an adolescent psychiatrist, respectively. The student contributors write from their souls, providing a frontline report on the process of acculturation into the profession. That process is as integral to their education as the basic sciences of biochemistry and anatomy or knowledge of physical diagnosis and interviewing techniques.

The essays are grouped thematically, in a framework that follows the developmental stages of physician training: "Communication," "Empathy," "Easing Suffering and Loss," and "Finding a Better Way." The first two sections reflect significant educational issues from early in medical school: the teaching of communication and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Sharon K. Hull, MD, MPH, Reviewer
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Springfield
shull@siumed.edu

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