☰

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

This Won't Hurt a Bit: (And Other White Lies): My Education in Medicine and Motherhood

This Won't Hurt a Bit: (And Other White Lies): My Education in Medicine and Motherhood

Michelle Au started medical school armed only with a surfeit of idealism, a handful of old ER episodes for reference, and some vague notion about "helping people."

This Won't Hurt a Bit is the story of how she grew up and became a real doctor.

It's a no-holds-barred account of what a modern medical education feels like, from the grim to the ridiculous, from the heartwarming to the obscene. Unlike most medical memoirs, however, this one details the author's struggles to maintain a life outside of the hospital, in the small amount of free time she had to live it. And, after she and her husband have a baby early in both their medical residencies, Au explores the demands of being a parent with those of a physician, two all-consuming jobs in which the lives of others are very literally in her hands.

Au's stories range from hilarious to heartbreaking and hit every note in between, proving more than anything that the creation of a new doctor (and a new parent) is far messier, far more uncertain, and far more gratifying than one could ever expect.
Country USA
Brand Grand Central Publishing
Manufacturer Grand Central Publishing
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780446538244
ReleaseDate 2011-05-11
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780446538244

You might also like...

On Call: A Doctor's Days and Nights in Residency

On Call: A Doctor's Days and Nights in Residency

Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years

Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years

In Stitches

Confessions of a Surgeon: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated...Life Behind the O.R. Doors

Confessions of a Surgeon: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated...Life Behind the O.R. Doors