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. Marion reveals the dehumanizing, slightly insane, and often brutal process of medical training. You will experience not only the intense pressure and chronic exhaustion of the doctor-to-be, but also the price the patient must often pay. While each story stands alone as an adventure in medicine, taken together they are a call to change. With profound eloquence and compassion, Dr. Marion explores ways in which to assure that humanity and idealism survive the grueling and destructive path to technical competency.

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

Biographies & Memoirs

Robert Marion

Professionals & Academics

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A book about psychiatric residency. Many personal anecdotes the author who sometimes portrays himself as a goofy guy who thinks he's right most of the time.

The Making of a Psychiatrist

David S. Viscott, MD

Kill Zone (Peter Macklin, The Nine-to-Five Killer, Book 1)

Peter Macklin, a consummate hit-man working for the Boniface crime family of Detroit, finds himself working for the FBI and the Secret Service to secure the release of several hundred hostages aboard a tour boat on Lake Erie

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

ESTELMAN, Loren D.

Mystery

Sugartown (The Amos Walker Series #5)

Detective Amos Walker's fifth case takes him into the crazy labyrinth of Detroit's Polish emigre community where it intersects with the decay and corruption of the city's criminal underworld

Literature & Fiction

Loren D. Estleman

Literary

Motor City Blue (The Amos Walker Series #1)

"If I see my name in tomorrow's paper yours will be in the next edition. Bordered in black." 
Marla Bernstein is a pretty, dark-haired teenager? who also happens to be the ward of Ben Morningstar-a semi-retired mobster who prefers to keep family business out of the newspapers. When Marla suddenly disappears, the gang boss is forced to call in private eve Amos Walker, who quickly learns his new employer doesn't take "no" for an answer when he offers a job opportunity. 
Unfortunately, the only clue to Marla's whereabouts is a pornographic photograph that clearly proves that she's become part of a world that disgusts even her criminal guardian. . 
The photo, in turn leads Walker into the seedy world of Detroit's porn shops and blue movies, where Marla's trail becomes even murkier?.and increasingly more dangerous to follow. . 
As first cases go, Walker could have certainly asked for one less challenging?... 
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The Midnight Man (The Amos Walker Series #3)

Private eye, Amos Walker, repays a debt when a police sergeant, Van Sturtevant, is shot trying to help two colleagues who had been ambushed. Sturtevant and his wife hire Walker to find the people responsible, but Walker ends up in a race with a bounty hunter who is prepared to kill. Loren D. Estleman is the author of seven other Walker novels, including "Motor City Blue".

The Glass Highway (The Amos Walker Series #4)

Fast-talking sleuth Amos Walker takes on a case that lands him in the middle of a power struggle between Detroit drug dealers

Every Brilliant Eye (The Amos Walker Series #6)

When Barry Stackpole disappears, private detective Amos Walker investigates Stackpole's suspicions of fraud and police corruption

Lady Yesterday (The Amos Walker Series #7)

Tracking down a runaway wife is run of the mill. That's yesterday's blues. But finding the trombonist father of black, beautiful, reformed hooker Iris threatens to blow up into the case of a lifetime. 
 The trail Amos Walker follows through Detroit's smoky music clubs leads him to dens of hard crime and harder drugs -- where Iris and Amos will be lucky to escape with their lives, much less the truth about a past packed with menacing secrets. And that's no jazz.

Downriver (The Amos Walker Series #9)

Amos Walker investigates when, at Detroit's Marianne Motors, Commodore Stutch's takeover plans threaten Timothy Marianne's ambitions, and Edith Marianne's machinations collide with an innovative stock swindle and an ex-con

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