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#186800 - 05/12/10 06:03 PM INTERN by Dr. X
Paulwa_dup1 Paulwa_dup1 Member Registered: 02/12/05 Posts: 4951 Loc: Washington	Just got my hardback copy in the mail the other day. Dr. X I found out a few years after having read the book the first time is or was a Dr. I knew locally and lived up a nice forest canyon here. His name is Dr. Allan Nourse. He died a few years back of a final heart attack and had gone through quadruple bypass at Virginia Mason hospital in Seattle where he served his internship. The book is excellent and a very fascinating look into the fifth year of medicine after school. This will be probably the fifth time I have read this book through the years. I have a paperback somewhere around here but finally decided I need a nice hardback permanent copy to keep. He wrote his final book titled' The Elk Hunt' and that one is on its way to me also and it is a great read also. You can find these titles on Amazon pretty reasonable and I can't recommend them too highly to you. When you finsh one of his books it is almost like you could go out and start treating patients yourself. Ha! Paul
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#187155 - 05/22/10 07:59 PM Re: INTERN by Dr. X [Re: Paulwa_dup1]
Paulwa_dup1 Paulwa_dup1 Member Registered: 02/12/05 Posts: 4951 Loc: Washington	Well finished my copy of 'Intern'last night and today got in my replacement copy of 'The elk Hunt' by Dr.Nourse (the origiinal copy I bought had about 100 pages in the middle of the book with a big square cut out of those pages. I will make a book safe out of it.) I am about 50 pages into my new copy. It is about heart attacks as he had a heart attack at the beginning of elk season. He lived about 10 miles outside of our hometown and went to our local hospital (I have been a patient in there a couple of times and once in CCU where he spent a few nights also at the beginning of his heart attack) Know the Dr's. he had also.So kind of a personal attachment for me. He later was ambulanced over to Virginia Mason hospital in Seattle where he had interned about 25 years previously and had Dr's. he worked under back then doing the doctoring on him. This is a very interesting and you can gain much knowledge from it about the heart and its problems. He is a great and interestng writer. His book 'Intern' was a best seller and he wrote it back then under the Dr.X pseudonym and released it as fiction since he had to secret patient and Dr's names. He even made Virginia Mason hospiital of Seattle into Greystone hospital in a southwestern desert town for anonymity. I can't encourage you too strongly to read these two books. I got mine pretty cheaply at Amazon.com. Well that is about all I can say except I have read Intern about 6 times now over the years and still enjoy it immensely. This will be my first time all the way through the Elk Hunt though. It is very enjoyable too. Paul Edited by Paulwa_dup1 (05/22/10 08:01 PM)
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#187494 - 06/01/10 06:46 PM Re: INTERN by Dr. X [Re: Paulwa_dup1]
Paulwa_dup1 Paulwa_dup1 Member Registered: 02/12/05 Posts: 4951 Loc: Washington	Well, I read 'the Elk Hunt' and it was a really great read with loads of coronary technical info in with his story of quadruple bypass and elk hunting interwoven. I got his novel'the Fourth Horseman' today and am into it 21 pages so far. I knew it would be about plague or pestulence for sure. It is and takes place in the Northwest to start. I see places and towns whose names I know and some I even grew up in, but this buboniic type plague spreads across America and there is a pharmaceutical company only driven by money who somehow sits on the medicine that would cure it. An outlaw group ofscientists make up the meds and saves america at the lastminute or something like that. I am not into fiction but since Alan Nourse wrote it I will read it all in his memory because I like his writing. I should be getting his book'The Human Body' soon and am looking forward to that. Hope it has lots of drawngs and pictures with the technical writing. Paul Edited by Paulwa_dup1 (06/01/10 06:49 PM)
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