Learning How the Heart Beats: The Making of a Pediatrician

by Claire McCarthy

The author shares twenty-three stories which recount her experiences on the journey into the medical profession, discussing specific cases and examining medical and ethical issues

Genres: Memoir, Nonfiction, Medicine, Science

247 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1995

Reviews

[Tara · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book puts the medicial profession in a bit of a new light for me. I began to see things from the physician's eyes. This is especially good for me, not only because I have made hospital finance my life, but also because I am a terrible patient.

This story hits home for me because McCarthy rotated through the Boston hospitals. I generally love books, fiction or non, that take place in Boston, but this one was extra special to me.

[Lizzie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Kind of boring essays about learning medicine.

[Gary Turner · Rating 4 out of 5]

You will be amazed by this book. Takes you into another world. A world very few of us get to visit.

[archang3l_ · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was simply amazing.