{"product_id":"2940033276592","title":"The Unfeeling Wannabe Surgeon: A Med School Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe hours are inhumane.\u003cbr\u003eThoracic surgeon: \"Never stand when you can sit. Never sit when you can lie down. Never lie down when you can sleep.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrthopedic surgery resident: \"We do 72 hours on call on the weekends...but if you just accept that you'll have no life for five years, it's not so bad.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFellow medical student: \"You have to decide when you're too tired to eat, or too hungry to sleep.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe people are insane.\u003cbr\u003eFellow medical student: \"Yes, Dr. Job's the surgeon who asked the nurse for a sterile towel. She handed it to him. He thanked her, tossed the towel over the resident's face, and punched him through the drape, so that his fist would stay sterile. Then Dr. Job kept on operating.\" Pause. \"But the he's always been very nice to me.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut you literally hold someone's life in your hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd the one thing that nobody told me before I plunged hands-first into my first surgical rotation, the thing I had to discover for myself, was that, compared to anything else in medicine:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery blood-spattered second of surgery\u003cbr\u003eis\u003cbr\u003eso\u003cbr\u003emuch\u003cbr\u003efun.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Olo Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47105748173040,"sku":"2940033276592","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940033276592_p0.jpg?v=1763957828","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940033276592","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}