Few professions carry as much privilege, responsibility, and stigma as Medicine. For anyone considering going to medical school, and for anyone who is curious about the what it"s really like to go through medical school, this compelling, revelatory book is a must read. The physician-author describes the journey-through college: the cut-throat mentality of pre-med students who brutally compete with each other to gain the coveted letter of acceptance to medical school. Once in medical school, the author describes how all semblance of humanity was often pummeled out of the medical students as they spent the first two years in virtual seclusion memorizing mountains of information and studying for exams. Then, during the final two years in rotation, she describes their abuse as scut-puppies and objects of ridicule by their supervising physicians. During internship, the relentless hours and mind-numbing fatigue threaten not only their physical health but also, at times, their moral integrity. The author moved to New York City for internship in 1985 when the AIDS crisis was burgeoning. Having never diagnosed or treated a patient with AIDS during medical school, this young doctor confronts the suffering and death of AIDS during a period when there was no blood test for diagnosis and no therapy to administer. More than 100 references from the medical literature provide subjective and objective descriptions of the offenses, indignities, controversies and triumphs along the grueling path to becoming a physician. But the overriding concern of the author during these grueling years is to remain compassionate, perceptive, intellectually inquisitive, andUNBROKEN...Even After Medical School.