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In medical school, Matt McCarthy dreamed of being a different kind of doctor - the type of mythical, unflappable doctor who could reach unreachable patients. However when a new admission to the critical attention unit almost perished his first nights on call, he found himself scrambling. Visions of mastery quickly gave way to hopes of simply making it through medical center life, where confidence was hard to come by and no amount of med school training could dispel the terror of facing genuine patients. This funny, candid memoir of McCarthy's intern 12 months at a New York hospital provides a scorchingly frank take a look at how doctors are created, taking visitors into patients' rooms and doctors' meetings to see a physician's trip from ineptitude to competence. McCarthy's one heart stroke of luck paired him with a brilliant second-year adviser he called "Baio" (owing to his resemblance to the Charles in Charge star), who became a remarkable teacher with a wicked sense of humor. McCarthy would learn even more from folks he cared for, including a guy named Benny, who was simply living in the hospital for months at the same time awaiting a center transplant. But no teacher could help McCarthy when a major accident put his own health vulnerable, and demonstrated him all too painfully the thin series between doctor and patient. The Real Doctor Will See You Soon offers a windows on to medical center life that dispenses with sanctimony and self-seriousness while emphasizing the black-comic paradox to become a health care provider: How do you learn to save lives in employment where there is no practice?
