Doctors' Orders : : The Making of Status Hierarchies in an Elite Profession / / Tania M. Jenkins.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Jenkins, Tania M.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Idioma: English
• Descrición Física: 1 online resource

The United States does not have enough doctors. Every year since the 1950s, internationally trained and osteopathic medical graduates have been needed to fill residency positions because there are too few American-trained MDs. However, these international and osteopathic graduates have to significan...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• List of Terms and Acronyms
• Introduction
• 1. Meet the Residents
• 2. The Match List
• 3. A Day on the Wards
• 4. Grooming
• 5. Graduation
• 6. The Navy SEALs and the National Guard
• Conclusions and Implications
• Afterword
• Appendix: On Being a “Second-Year Intern”
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index