Hoping for the stability he needs to start a family, Sandeep Jauhar, an attending cardiologist, accepts a position at a massive teaching hospital on the outskirts of Queens. With a decade’s worth of elite medical training behind him, he is eager to settle down and reap the rewards of countless sleepless nights.
Instead, he is confronted with sobering truths. Doctors' morale is low and getting lower. Blatant cronyism determines patient referrals, corporate ties distort medical decisions, and unnecessary tests are routinely performed in order to generate income. Meanwhile, a single patient in Jauhar's hospital might see fifteen specialists in one stay and still fail to receive a full picture of his actual condition.
In Doctored, Jauhar chronicles the formative years of his residency while observing firsthand the crisis of American medicine through the eyes of a cardiologist.
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“Arresting…Dr. Jauhar’s book is often moving, especially when he focuses on his patients…This thoughtful telling provides a service in itself. Because the first step toward healing is, of course, getting a good diagnosis.”
— New York Times
“Highly engaging and disarmingly candid…Dr. Jauhar does a service by describing eloquently the excesses and dysfunctions of patient care and the systemic distortions responsible for them.”
— Wall Street JournalLawlor's intentional performance captures the emotional toll that Jauhar's professional decisions take on his sense of self as a person and a caregiver.
— AudioFile“This beautifully written and unsparing memoir puts a human face on the vast, dysfunctional system in which patients and clinicians alike are now entangled.”
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Sandeep Jauhar is the bestselling author of several acclaimed books, including Intern, Doctored, and Heart: A History, which was a finalist for the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize; was named a best book of 2018 by the London Mail on Sunday, Science Friday, and the Los Angeles Public Library; and was a PBS NewsHour/New York Times book club pick. A practicing physician, he writes writes regularly for the opinion section of the New York Times. His TED Talk on the emotional heart was one of the ten most-watched TED Talks of 2019.
Patrick Lawlor, an award-winning narrator, is also an accomplished stage actor, director, and combat choreographer. He has worked extensively off Broadway and has been an actor and stuntman in both film and television. He has been an Audie Award finalist multiple times and has garnered several AudioFile Earphones Awards, a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award, and many starred audio reviews from Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews.