Match Day: One Day and One Dramatic Year in the Lives of Three New Doctors

Each year on the third Thursday in March more than fifteen thousand graduating medical students exult despair and endure Match Day: the result of a computer algorithm that assigns students to their hospital residencies in almost every field of medicine. The match determines the crucial first job as an intern and ultimately shapes the rest of his―or in increasing numbers her―life. . Match Day follows three women from the anxious months of preparation before the match through the completion of their first full year of internship. Each has long dreamed of becoming a doctor. Stephanie Chao is beginning her career as a surgeon. Rakhi Barkowski must balance her husbands aspirations with her own desire to work in internal medicine. Michelle LaFonda moves forward in her quest to become a radiologist but struggles to find progress in her personal relationship. Each woman makes mistakes saves lives and witnesses death; each must recognize the balancing act of family and career; and each comes to learn what it means to heal to comfort to lose and to grieve all while maintaining a professional demeanor.. Just as One L became the essential book about the education of young attorneys so Match Day will be for every medical student doctor and reader interested in medicine: a guide to what to expect an insightful account of the changing world of doctors and a dramatic recollection of this pressured perilous challenging and rewarding time of life.