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Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs

The Making of a Surgeon

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Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs

By: Michael J. Collins MD
Narrated by: John Pruden
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It looked for a while like Michael Collins would spend his life breaking concrete and throwing rocks for the Vittorio Scalese Construction Company. He liked the work and he liked the pay. But a chance remark by one of his coworkers made him realize that he wanted to involve himself in something bigger, something more meaningful than crushing rocks and drinking beer.

In his acclaimed first memoir, Hot Lights, Cold Steel, Collins wrote passionately about his four-year surgical residency at the prestigious Mayo Clinic. Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs turns back the clock, taking listeners from his days as a construction worker to his entry into medical school, expertly infusing his journey to become a doctor with humanity, compassion, and humor. From the first time he delivers a baby to being surrounded by death and pain on a daily basis, Collins compellingly writes about how medicine makes him confront, in a very deep and personal way, the nature of God and suffering - and how delicate life can be.

©2009 Michael J. Collins, M.D. (P)2018 Tantor Medical Professionals & Academics Witty Medicine Medical Education
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Love the unbridled enthusiasm for his work. People spend too much time trying to pretend that they’re above showing how excited they are by their work. This guy is verbally jumped up and down with enthusiasm for both his work and life.

Great story

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this book contains indecent language and references. might ve how some people talk but not the sort of stiff I want piped directly into my ear

indecent

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I would be horrified if this man was my doctor, very misogynist, sexist and juvenile in his thinking

the worst book I have listened too

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