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Author:
Adam Stern
Publisher:
Mariner Books
Date:
July 13, 2021
Adam Stern was a student at a state medical school before being selected to train as a psychiatry resident at one of the most prestigious programs in the country. His new and initially intimidating classmates were high achievers from the Ivy League and other elite universities around the nation. Faculty raved about the group as though the residency program had won the lottery, nicknaming them 'The Golden Class,' but would Stern ever prove that he belonged? In his memoir, Stern pulls back the curtain on the intense and emotionally challenging lessons he and his fellow doctors learned while studying the human condition, and ultimately, the value of connection.
What The Reviewers Say
This book is a fascinating look at the inside of a medical residency, and it offers a glimpse of many of the often-understated personal costs involved.
... a series of annoying humble brags...permeate this book. It’s a form of self-deprecating humor except that it’s not self-deprecating and, come to think of it, it’s not really humor, either. Dr. Stern sets himself up time and again with thoughts of inadequacy and, when he succeeds, we’re supposed to be as surprised as he is.
As the author vividly captures the urgency, chaos, and eerie fascination involved with the treatment of mental illness, he also candidly shares numerous patient portraits, which provide some of the most moving and disturbing moments in the book.
Stern debuts with a mesmerizing memoir of the four years he spent in a psychiatry residency program at Harvard.
