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Match Day by Brian Eule

Match Day

One Day and One Dramatic Year in the Lives of Three New Doctors

by Brian Eule

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  • Mar 2009, 272 pages
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Each year, on the third Thursday in March, more than 15,000 graduating medical students exult, despair, and endure Match Day: the decision of a controversial computer algorithm, which matches students with hospital residencies in every field of medicine. The match determines where each graduate will be assigned the crucial first job as an intern, and shapes the rest of his—or, in increasing number, her—life.

In Match Day, Brian Eule follows three women from the anxious months before the match through the completion of their first year of internship. Each woman makes mistakes, saves lives, and witnesses death; each must keep or jettison the man in her life; each comes to learn what it means to heal, to comfort, to lose, and to grieve, while maintaining a professional demeanor.

Just as One L became the essential book about the education of young attorneys, so Match Day will be for every medical student, doctor, and reader interested in medicine: a guide to what to expect, and a dramatic recollection of a pressured, perilous, challenging, and rewarding time of life.

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"Starred Review. Eule is a gifted storyteller ...[h]e brings us deep into the livesof these young people and celebrates the real-world rigor of residence training...Required reading for future doctors." - Kirkus Reviews.

"This is a traditional medical coming-of-age that pleasantly surprises with its reach far beyond the hospital walls." - Publishers Weekly.

"A marvelous coming of age narrative about three young doctors and the choices they make. Match Day isn’t just about stethoscopes and scalpels; it’s packed full of the hidden stuff—romances ruined; romances saved; late-night panics and an unshakeable desire to lead America’s next generation of healers." - George Anders, New York Times bestselling author of Perfect Enough.

"Skillfully and tenderly, Eule interweaves the lives of three medical couples as they contemplate critical life decisions about career, work, family, and love." – Steven A. Schroeder, MD, Distinguished Professor of Health and Health Care, University of California, San Francisco.

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Brian Eule

Brian Eule is a graduate of Stanford University and received an MFA in writing from Columbia University. He has worked as a journalist for two Massachusetts newspapers, as well as contributing to Stanford Magazine. He lives with his wife in Northern California.

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