Austin Duffy
Autor(a) de The Night Interns: Austin Duffy
Obras de Austin Duffy
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- Obras
- 3
- Membros
- 24
- Popularidade
- #522,742
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Resenhas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 9
What the author does manage to communicate well is the toxic hierarchical culture of hospital medicine, the senior doctors puffed up by their power regularly dressing down and humiliating those just beginning their careers.
If Duffy had provided his main character with a back story, some explanation as to why the young man was drawn into medicine in the first place, I feel I might have been more engaged. Instead, he’s settled for more of an impressionistic mood piece, communicating the general feelings of exhaustion and fear that are an intern’s near-constant companions.… (mais)