On Call

On Call A Doctor's Days and Nights in Residency Emily R. Transue, M.D. The 'birth' of a doctor through the grueling years of residency earing the long white coat of an M.D. and being called 'Doctor' for the first time are heady experiences for a newly-minted doctor checking in for her first day of residency. In a reflective and crisis-packed memoir, Dr. Emily Transue chronicles this intense three-year stage of medical training-her internship in internal medicine in a Seattle hospital-as she gains confidence in putting her academic knowledge to work. During her first week on the medical wards, she watched someone die of cardiac arrest in the emergency room. It was a long way from books and labs. She began to record her ex-per-iences as a way of gaining perspective. Transue focuses on the patients she encounters in the hospital, ER and clinic, all of whom are at critical junctures in their lives. Some of these stories are funny, and others are tragic. A charming man, newly diagnosed with lung cancer is lyrical about his life on a sunny island far away; a family witnesses the death of an estranged son, losing him twice; and an elderly woman, just released from a breathing machine after nearly dying, sits up and demands a cup of coffee. On Call captures the harried life of a resident physician and shows Dr. Transue growing into the respon-si-bility of a new member of the medical profession to become a highly respected physician in the field. Emily R. Transue, M.D., is a native of Toledo, Ohio. She attended Yale University and Dartmouth Medical School. She did her residency at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she was awarded a chief residency position. She works as a general in-ternist at a clinic in downtown Seattle where she lives. Medicine/Memoir 0-312-32483-9 $23.95 $34.95 Canadian 51/2" x 81/4" / 256 pages August