Learning to Play God: The Coming of Age of a Young Doctor

Do you know what your doctor really thinks or how your doctor really feels about medicine and about you? The seeds lie in the critical first few years of a medical education, and Dr. Robert Marion, director of the Center for Congenital Disorders at the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, draws from his own experiences as student, intern, and resident to provide some surprising — and sobering — answers.

In the course of twenty gripping, illuminating, and extraordinarily candid stories, Dr...