Becoming a Doctor

This book is a very personal account of a medical education that began in 1966. It describes one person’s experience of being gradually transformed from a nervous student into a professorial physician. A doctor’s education looks at first sight like a straightforward technical training, but ‘re-membering’ it as a personal experience creates a new and disturbing picture, a blend of joys, absurdities and frustrations. The author observes his younger self’s efforts to communicate and to regulate fee