- Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Signet Books (Sep 1973)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0451165551
- ISBN-13: 978-0451165558
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.6 x 1.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I have given this book only three stars as I have judged it as a novel/entertainment. But I actually think the book is more of a biography, even if the protagonist is fictive.
In the prologue Robin Cook acknowledges the reality of the content and how it is based upon his own experience as a young intern. Although a lot has happened in medicine since then, Dr. Cook emphasizes that the experiences of an intern during that year are still more or less the same. Hence "The Year of the Intern" is basically very accurate.
This book is a very medical book. Almost mirrorizing what goes on in all departments of a large busy hospital day and night. Detailed descriptions of cases, treatment, operations, medication. Everything that goes on behind the scenes. Serious - at times brutal - sad, heartwarming, touching.
My most important message to new readers is that the book is not an entertaining novel - medical thriller - for laymen. Unless one has a special interest in or background from medicine, this book is easily boring, full of detailed medical technicalities and observations/spesific medical terms.
There are no chapters and few paragraphs.
Many of the cases described, are so tough and realistic that it's hard to see how they will prove as entertainment to ordinary readers - or any readers at all, for that matter.
Five stars for readers from the inside medical world. Three or less for seekers of the fascinating fictional medical thriller.
In the prologue Robin Cook acknowledges the reality of the content and how it is based upon his own experience as a young intern. Although a lot has happened in medicine since then, Dr. Cook emphasizes that the experiences of an intern during that year are still more or less the same. Hence "The Year of the Intern" is basically very accurate.
This book is a very medical book. Almost mirrorizing what goes on in all departments of a large busy hospital day and night. Detailed descriptions of cases, treatment, operations, medication. Everything that goes on behind the scenes. Serious - at times brutal - sad, heartwarming, touching.
My most important message to new readers is that the book is not an entertaining novel - medical thriller - for laymen. Unless one has a special interest in or background from medicine, this book is easily boring, full of detailed medical technicalities and observations/spesific medical terms.
There are no chapters and few paragraphs.
Many of the cases described, are so tough and realistic that it's hard to see how they will prove as entertainment to ordinary readers - or any readers at all, for that matter.
Five stars for readers from the inside medical world. Three or less for seekers of the fascinating fictional medical thriller.
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This was the very first Robin Cook novel, written almost 40 years ago, a lifetime ago you might say. However, many of the things mentioned in this book still hold true today and i should know since i actually earn my living from the health care setting.
First off, it must be said that this is a different novel from the many more that followed it thereafter. Although it s classified as fiction, i must say that it is only part fiction and part biography of a young intern going up the ladder to becoming an experienced, fully qualified doctor. The book takes a cynical but extremely realistic view of how a young intern enters the medical world, full of idealisms and expectations and how they are shattered in his battle to survive the journey ahead. Many times unfortunately even at the expense of the patient's best interests and well-being.
If you do not work in the medical field or do not have the interest in the routine life of a doctor doing his chores, you will probably find this book boring. However, it is an excellent opportunity to get a glimpse into what happens behind the big, closed hospital doors around the world.
First off, it must be said that this is a different novel from the many more that followed it thereafter. Although it s classified as fiction, i must say that it is only part fiction and part biography of a young intern going up the ladder to becoming an experienced, fully qualified doctor. The book takes a cynical but extremely realistic view of how a young intern enters the medical world, full of idealisms and expectations and how they are shattered in his battle to survive the journey ahead. Many times unfortunately even at the expense of the patient's best interests and well-being.
If you do not work in the medical field or do not have the interest in the routine life of a doctor doing his chores, you will probably find this book boring. However, it is an excellent opportunity to get a glimpse into what happens behind the big, closed hospital doors around the world.
1 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Robin Cook shows you the meaning of suspense in this marvelous novel!!!
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