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Year of the Intern by Robin Cook (1973, Mass Market)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100451165551

ISBN-139780451165558

eBay Product ID (ePID)733728

Product Key Features

Book TitleYear of the Intern

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPsychological, Thrillers / Suspense, General, Thrillers / Medical

Publication Year1973

GenreFiction

AuthorRobin Cook

Book SeriesA Medical Thriller Ser.

FormatMass Market

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight6.2 Oz

Item Length6.8 in

Item Width4.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN00-003040

TitleLeadingThe

ReviewsPraise for Robin Cook and The Year of the Intern: "Master of the medical thriller."-- The New York Times "Fascinating, compelling, intensely readable!"-- Fort Wayne News-Sentinel

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Grade ToUP

SynopsisThe nurse's voice on the phone is desperate, but young Dr. Peters, in his first weeks of internship, is only bone-tired and a little afraid. He has forgotten when he last slept. Yet he knows that in the coming hours he will have to make life-or-death decisions regarding patients, assist contemptuous surgeons in the operating room, deal with nurses who may know more than he does, cope with worried relatives and friends of the injured and ill, and pretend at all times to be what he has not yet become--a fully qualified doctor. This book is about what happens to a young intern as he goes through the year that promises to make him into a doctor, and threatens to destroy him as a human being--, The classic first novel by Robin Cook, the New York Times bestselling "master of the medical thriller." "Dr. Peters, the patient has stopped breating and doesn't have any pulse!" The nurse's voice on the phone is desperate, but young Dr. Peters, in his first weeks of interning, is bone-tired and a little afraid. He has forgotten when he last slept. Yet he knows that in the coming hours he will have to make life-or-death decisions regarding patients, assist contemptuous surgeons in the operating room, deal with nurses who may know more than he does, cope with worried relatives and friends of the injured and ill, and pretend at all times to be what he has not yet become--a fully qualified doctor. Become immersed in the world of medicine through the eyes of a young intern as he goes through the year that promises to make him into a doctor--and threatens to destroy him as a human being.