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Playing God

The Evolution of a Modern Surgeon

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Playing God

Written by: Anthony Youn MD, Alan Eisenstock - contributor
Narrated by: Kyle Tait
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What does it mean to be a doctor?

"I am a doctor."

Every year, thousands of medical school graduates utter these four simple words. But as you will hear in Playing God, earning an MD is just the first step to becoming a real physician.

In this thrilling and moving memoir, Dr. Anthony Youn reveals that the true metamorphosis from student to doctor occurs not in medical school but in the formative years of residency training and early practice. It is only through actually saving and losing patients, taking on the medical establishment, wrestling with financial and emotional survival, and fighting for patients' lives that a young doctor becomes a mature and competent physician.

Dr. Youn takes you from the operating rooms of a university surgery residency program to the gleaming offices of top Beverly Hills plastic surgeons to opening the doors of his empty clinic as a new doctor with no money, no patients, and mountains of debt. Playing God leaves you with an unexpected answer to that profound question: "What does it mean to be a doctor?"

In Playing God, you will take a journey through the world of surgery, hospitals, and the practice of medicine unlike any that you have traveled before.

©2019 Anthony Youn, MD with Alan Eisenstock (P)2019 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books Medical Medicine & Health Care Industry

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Humorous tone and sincerity

Being a doctor myself, could connect with author. Beautiful pace and dictation. Thoroughly recommend to doctors and everyone who’s a potential patient

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nice book and humor is also goood

better if he describes his medical college or school in detail as He explained his residency year one to three in General Residency and 4 5 years plastic surgery Residency almost at the interesting point of the book after the fellowship year-end .

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