Three Books by Doctors on Greed, Empathy, and End-of-Life Care

November 17, 2014

(Washington Post) – Despite its deceptively bland title, “Internal Medicine,” Terrence Holt’s new collection of stories, captures the feelings of a young doctor’s three-year hospital residency — the powerlessness, the exhaustion, the chaotic and seemingly endless shifts, and above all, the intensity of being with people in moments of extremity — better than anything else I have ever read. Holt left a professorship in literature and creative writing at Rutgers to enter medical school at the age of 40 and is now a specialist in geriatric medicine at the University of North Carolina.